Remote Backend Engineer for AI Agents

Outlier; New York (NY); Remote; USD 57,000 - 81,000; Part time

Job summary

Outlier helps the world’s most innovative companies improve their AI agents by providing human feedback. Do you want to shape the future of autonomous agents like OpenClaw? We collaborate with leading AI organizations to train LLMs to function as proactive, multi-step agents.

Our projects focus on teaching these systems how to design, coordinate, and optimize complex, real-world workflows. Whether you are a passionate orchestration guru or experienced software developer — we want you to help us

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in backend engineering, AI automation, or complex systems integration.
• Proven ability to build and maintain production-grade software with modular separation.
• Experience building for live environments and multi-turn system interactions.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to provide high-density technical feedback.
• Nice to have experience integrating live tools and state management.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Backend engineering

AI automation

System integration

Production-grade software

Debug traces

Technical feedback

Tools

Supabase

Gmail

APIs

Job description

Outlier helps the world’s most innovative companies improve their AI agents by providing human feedback. Do you want to shape the future of autonomous agents like OpenClaw? We collaborate with leading AI organizations to train LLMs to function as proactive, multi-step agents.

Our projects focus on teaching these systems how to design, coordinate, and optimize complex, real-world workflows. Whether you are a passionate orchestration guru or experienced software developer — we want you to help us