AI-First Engineering Intern

ABOUT US

Xsolla is a global commerce company with robust tools and services to help developers solve the inherent challenges of the video game industry. From indie to AAA companies partner with Xsolla to help them fund distribute market and monetize their games. Grounded in the belief in the future of video games Xsolla is resolute in the mission to bring opportunities together and continually make new resources available to creators. Headquartered and incorporated in Los Angeles California Xsolla operates as the merchant of record and has helped over 1500 game developers to reach more players and grow their businesses around the world. With more paths to profits and ways to win developers have all the things needed to enjoy the game.
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Why This Role Exists

Xsolla is going all-in on becoming an AI-first company and were not waiting for a slow rollout to get there. Were offering AI Engineer Internships in regions across the globe to help drive that shift directly not by sitting in the back office but by building.

Youll work on two things:

1. Internal AI initiatives helping unlock AI tooling and integrations across Xsolla faster than our existing teams can alone.

2. Proof-of-concept builds on our own APIs showing our product and engineering teams whats possible when you build with AI as a core part of your workflow not an afterthought.

This isnt a shadow-and-observe internship. Youll ship code that goes to customers internal teams or external players and game developers working closely with senior engineers and fellow interns across our global regions.

Who Youll Work With

You wont be isolated on an intern-only project island. Youll work closely with senior engineers who are actively rebuilding how we write software and youll be part of a global cohort of interns building in parallel across our regions. That combination is the point: senior engineers give you a bar for what production-grade customer-facing code looks like and your fellow interns give you a peer group to trade ideas code and AI workflows every week.

What Youll Do

• Partner and collaborate with senior engineers to identify where AI tooling and integrations can remove friction and build the fix.

• Build applications and integrations on top of Xsollas APIs and SDKs that show internal teams how to move faster using AI-assisted development.

• Ship work that matters. What you build is expected to reach real users whether thats an internal tool an engineering team adopts or a customer-facing integration not a throwaway exercise that gets shelved after your internship ends.

• Use agentic coding tools (Claude Code Cursor or similar) as your default way of working not a novelty you reach for occasionally.

• Share what you build. We run weekly 30-second lightning-talk demos where everyone shows how they used AI to solve something that week youll be expected to bring something real.

• Work with minimal process. Youll get context a problem and a mentor the rest is on you to figure out and build.

• Learn from and collaborate with both directions: senior engineers wholl mentor you on production-grade practices and fellow interns across markets youll trade ideas and code with at the weekly demos.

What Were Looking For

You build things because you want to and that you already use AI to do it faster.

• Genuine passion for building. You have side projects hackathon entries open-source contributions or something you shipped just because you were curious. You didnt need an assignment to make it happen.

• Real AI fluency. Youve actually used tools like Claude Code Cursor Copilot or similar agentic coding tools to build something not just asked ChatGPT to explain a concept. You should be able to explain how you used AI to get there and how you confirmed it actually worked not someone who fires off a prompt and hopes for the best.

• Bias toward action. Given an ambiguous problem you start building before you ask for a spec.

• Comfort with developing modern full-stack solutions we care more about how fast you learn than what you already know cold.

• Open to current undergraduate students graduate students and recent graduates of a Computer Science Software Engineering or related program. If youre pursuing a graduate degree and dont mind taking on an internship-level role to get hands-on with AI we want to hear from you.

How to Apply

No take-home assignments no formal problem sets. Were evaluating proof of work not your ability to complete an assigned exercise. Please include:

1. A link to a GitHub profile deployed project or anything else youve built the more recent and self-directed the better.

2. A short answer (2-3 sentences or a 2-minute video/Loom if youd rather show than tell) to: Whats something hard you built recently and why did you build it

Were not grading for correctness or polish. Were looking for whether you have a real answer and whether its clear you actually did the work yourself (with AI as your tool not your ghostwriter).

$20 - $25 an hourEqual Employment Opportunity Statement:Xsolla is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We do not discriminate based on race color religion sex national origin age disability sexual orientation gender identity or any other characteristic protected by law.We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in accordance with the Fair Chance Act.Criminal History Consideration:For the AI-First Engineering Intern we will conduct a background check that may include the following:Criminal history checkEmployment verificationEducation verificationRelevance to Job Responsibilities:The background check is relevant to this position because of the following role responsibilities:Accessing confidential company dataEnsuring compliance with regulatory requirementsRights Under the Fair Chance Act:Applicants are encouraged to inquire about their rights under the Fair Chance Act. If you have questions regarding our hiring practices please contact emailprotected.We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process such as reviewing applications analyzing resumes or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed please contact us.

Required Experience:

Intern

Employment Type : Intern
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1
Hourly Salary Salary: 20 - 25