Remote Backend Engineer for Autonomous AI Agents

Outlier; Nashville (TN); Remote; USD 57,000 - 81,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Weekly payments

Remote work

Payment via ACH, PayPal, AirTM

Up to $50/hr pay rate

AI tool access (GPT, Claude)

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 Large Language Models (LLMs) to function as proactive, multi-step agents. Our projects focus on teaching these systems how to design, coordinate, and optimize complex, real-world architectural workflows.

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 (e.g., distinct services for data parsing, logic processing, and reporting).
• Practical 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.
• Nice to have experience building multi-stage coordination tasks with data acquisition leading to reasoned output.
• Hands-on experience integrating agents with live tools such as Supabase, Gmail, and various APIs to solve real-world problems.
• High level of comfort implementing persistent state and session discovery using MEMORY.md to track agent progress.
• Experience identifying subtle failures like privacy leaks, authority escalation, or indirect prompt injections.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Backend engineering

AI automation

Complex systems integration

Production-grade software

Modular architecture

Live environments

Technical feedback

Multi-stage coordination

APIs integration

Persistent state

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 Large Language Models (LLMs) to function as proactive, multi-step agents. Our projects focus on teaching these systems how to design, coordinate, and optimize complex, real-world architectural workflows.