Job Overview

Our client is looking for a full-time AI Product Engineer to help design, build, stabilise and productise OpenClaw Mission Control. This is not a narrow bug-fixing role and it is not limited to progressing a bounded task spreadsheet. The role is to help build the entire application into a safe, usable, local-first product. The developer will operate like a founding engineer, understanding the product vision, identifying gaps, proposing sensible architecture, converting rough objectives into buildable work, and keeping the project moving in an organised and safe manner.

Schedule: Monday to Friday, 9am to 6pm with 1 hour unpaid break | Australian Eastern Time

Responsibilities

• Act as the principal full-time technical builder for OpenClaw Mission Control.
• Use Codex and other AI coding tools intelligently, while retaining human engineering judgment and accountability.
• Help convert a promising local-first AI agent framework into a coherent, safe and product-grade application.
• Own the practical path from prototype to usable product: architecture, implementation, testing, UX, documentation, and release discipline.
• Balance speed of development with safety, governance, maintainability and a clear audit trail.
• Translate product objectives into technical plans, implementation sequences and acceptance criteria.
• Maintain momentum without turning the project into an uncontrolled rewrite.
• Make sensible technical recommendations and explain trade-offs in plain English.
• Work with the project owner, Jeya, Codex and other contributors in a transparent and auditable manner.
• Keep the task register useful, but not allow the register to become the whole job.
• Build the entire operating layer, including Project OS (project creation, rooms, persistent state, command routing, and self-healing records).
• Develop the agent and skill system, mission-control dashboard, self-improvement system, action layer, local safety layer, onboarding/setup sequences, and provider integrations (OpenAI/Codex, Anthropic, Gemini, Groq, DeepSeek, Ollama).
• Manage documentation and release readiness, including installation guides, operational guides, acceptance criteria, smoke tests, changelogs and release notes.

Requirements

• Mandatory requirement: The candidate must have practical access to, and working proficiency with, Codex from the commencement of the engagement.
• Ability to use Codex as part of the development workflow, review Codex outputs critically, and convert agent-generated work into stable, tested, auditable production code.
• Ability to treat Codex as an engineering accelerator, prompting, supervising, testing, criticising, correcting, and integrating its output without substituting human engineering accountability.
• Ability to give Codex clear implementation prompts tied to product goals, architecture and safety constraints.
• Ability to review Codex diffs and identify overreach, regressions, unsafe patterns, hallucinated files or brittle implementations.

Independent Contractor Perks

• Permanent work from home
• Immediate hiring
• Health Insurance Coverage for eligible locations

Note

• Please click the "Apply" button to complete your application, including the assessment questions, technical check, and voice recording. Your hourly pay rate will be established based on your performance in the application process; submissions with all requirements fulfilled will receive priority review.