AI First Engineering Intern
Xsolla is a video game commerce company that provides a suite of tools and services—including merchant of record payment processing, tax management, fraud prevention, compliance, refunds, dispute management, and end-user support—to help game developers and publishers launch, grow, and monetize their games globally. It serves video game developers, publishers, and studios of all sizes across global and regional markets.
About Xsolla
Xsolla connects the tools, systems, payments, and web shops used by the video games industry, positioning itself as a global merchant of record supporting over 1,000 payment methods and a cumulative audience of 50 million, with transaction fees around 5%. Its services include tax management, fraud monitoring and prevention, global and regional regulatory compliance, refund and dispute management, and end-user payment support. Xsolla's product lineup includes the Xsolla SDK for native in-app payments on side-loaded apps and alternative app stores, a Buy Button enabling link-out purchases from iOS mobile games in the U.S., and Web Shop for building customized, direct-to-consumer game storefronts. The company works with major gaming industry partners and clients such as Mytona, Ubisoft, MARVEL SNAP, and others, and highlights partner success stories, industry events, and its own culture and hiring initiatives on its site.
Skills
About the Role
You will partner with senior engineers to identify opportunities for AI tooling and integrations, then build practical solutions. You will create applications and integrations using Xsolla APIs and SDKs, ship work for internal or external users, use agentic coding tools, and present weekly demos of your work.
Requirements
- Demonstrated passion for building through side projects, hackathons, open-source contributions, or self-directed work.
- Hands-on experience using agentic coding tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, or similar tools.
- Ability to explain how AI was used to build and validate a solution.
- Comfort developing modern full-stack solutions.
- Current undergraduate or graduate student, or recent graduate, in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related program.
- Provide a link to a GitHub profile, deployed project, or other proof of work.
- Provide a short response or video describing a difficult recent project and why it was built.
Responsibilities
- Partner with senior engineers to identify and build AI tooling and integrations that remove friction.
- Build applications and integrations on Xsolla APIs and SDKs using AI-assisted development.
- Ship internal tools or customer-facing integrations for real users.
- Use agentic coding tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, or similar tools as a primary workflow.
- Present weekly lightning-talk demos of AI-enabled work.
- Collaborate with senior engineers and fellow interns across regions.
