Remote AI Agent Engineer — Freelance, Up to $50/hr

Outlier; San Jose (CA); Remote; USD 57,000 - 81,000; Full time

Job summary

Outlier enables engineers to contribute to shaping autonomous agents like OpenClaw. This freelance, remote role pays up to $50 USD/hr with weekly payments.

Contributors work on real AI projects, earning additional incentives based on surge pricing and project needs. Ideal candidates have 2+ years in backend engineering or AI automation, with experience building production-grade software and integrating multi-turn systems.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of backend engineering, AI automation, or complex systems integration.
• Ability to build and maintain production-grade software with modular separation (e.g., distinct services for data parsing, logic processing, and reporting).
• Experience building for live, non-mocked environments and handling multi-turn system interactions.
• Outstanding attention to detail and the ability to provide clear, high-density technical feedback on complex system behaviors.

Responsibilities

• Write Eval Rubrics
• Debug Agent Traces
• Stress Test Agent

Skills

Backend engineering

AI automation

Systems integration

Live environments

Technical feedback

Attention to detail

Coordination tasks

Tools

Supabase

Gmail

APIs

Memory.md

Job description

Outlier enables engineers to contribute to shaping autonomous agents like OpenClaw. This freelance, remote role pays up to $50 USD/hr with weekly payments.

Contributors work on real AI projects, earning additional incentives based on surge pricing and project needs. Ideal candidates have 2+ years in backend engineering or AI automation, with experience building production-grade software and integrating multi-turn systems.