Remote OpenClaw Orchestration Engineer

Outlier; Denver (CO); Remote; USD 57,000 - 81,000; Full time

Job summary

Outlier is hiring a freelancer to help build and refine autonomous agent systems like OpenClaw. You will design evaluation rubrics, trace agent behavior, and stress-test agent workflows in live environments.

The role emphasizes modular software practices, integration with live tools, and robust feedback mechanisms. Ideal candidates have 2+ years in backend/AI automation, with a focus on multi-turn interactions and production-grade software.

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
• Expertise building multi-stage coordination tasks where data acquisition leads 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

Live environments

Multi-turn interactions

Attention to detail

Technical feedback

Coordination tasks

Data acquisition

Supabase integration

Gmail integration

APIs integration

Persistent state

Session discovery

Privacy leaks

Prompt injections

Tools

Gmail

Job description

Outlier is hiring a freelancer to help build and refine autonomous agent systems like OpenClaw. You will design evaluation rubrics, trace agent behavior, and stress-test agent workflows in live environments.

The role emphasizes modular software practices, integration with live tools, and robust feedback mechanisms. Ideal candidates have 2+ years in backend/AI automation, with a focus on multi-turn interactions and production-grade software.