Remote Backend Engineer for Autonomous AI Agents

Outlier; Washington (District of Columbia); Remote; USD 41,000 - 69,000; Full time

Job summary

Outlier is seeking skilled OpenClaw Agent Builders to shape autonomous agents. This freelance, remote role offers up to $50 USD/hr with weekly payments. You’ll work on designing, debugging, and stress-testing complex agent systems for live environments.

Ideal candidates have 2+ years in backend engineering, AI automation, or systems integration and can deliver production-grade software with modular services. Knowledge of live tool integrations is a plus.

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 (data parsing, logic processing, reporting).
• Experience building for live, non-mocked environments and handling multi-turn system interactions.
• Outstanding attention to detail and ability to provide 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

Production-grade software

Live environments handling

Tools

Supabase

Gmail

APIs

Job description

Outlier is seeking skilled OpenClaw Agent Builders to shape autonomous agents. This freelance, remote role offers up to $50 USD/hr with weekly payments. You’ll work on designing, debugging, and stress-testing complex agent systems for live environments.

Ideal candidates have 2+ years in backend engineering, AI automation, or systems integration and can deliver production-grade software with modular services. Knowledge of live tool integrations is a plus.