--- title: 'AI-First Engineering Intern at Xsolla' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/ai-first-engineering-intern-xsolla-perm-ka8rfer5ew4c' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-08' --- # AI-First Engineering Intern at Xsolla - **Company:** Xsolla - **Location:** Perm, Russia - **Employment:** internship - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-07-20 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08 - **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/xsolla/7a8f8d4c-10fc-4c64-bc9d-167ba1e367c4 ## Job description ## 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 1,500+ 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. For more information, visit xsolla.com. ## Why This Role Exists Xsolla is going all-in on becoming an AI-first company, and we're not waiting for a slow rollout to get there. We're 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. You'll work on two things: Internal AI initiatives – helping unlock AI tooling and integrations across Xsolla faster than our existing teams can alone. Proof-of-concept builds on our own APIs – showing our product and engineering teams what's possible when you build with AI as a core part of your workflow, not an afterthought. This isn't a shadow-and-observe internship. You'll 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 You'll Work With You won't be isolated on an intern-only project island. You'll work closely with senior engineers who are actively rebuilding how we write software, and you'll 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 You'll 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 Xsolla's 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 that's 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 – you'll be expected to bring something real. - Work with minimal process. You'll 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 who'll mentor you on production-grade practices, and fellow interns across markets you'll trade ideas and code with at the weekly demos. ## What We're 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 didn't need an assignment to make it happen. - Real AI fluency. You've 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 you're pursuing a graduate degree and don't mind taking on an internship-level role to get hands-on with AI, we want to hear from you. How to Apply Please include: - A link to a GitHub profile, deployed project, or anything else you've built – the more recent and self-directed, the better. - A short answer (2-3 sentences, or a 2-minute video/Loom if you'd rather show than tell) to: “What's something hard you built recently, and why did you build it?” We're not grading for correctness or polish. We're looking for whether you have a real answer, and whether it's clear you actually did the work yourself (with AI as your tool, not your ghostwriter). Xsolla takes your privacy seriously and will not sell or externally distribute any personal data received during the hiring process. In accordance with applicable data protection laws, Xsolla is committed to protecting your personal information and respecting your privacy. For any inquiries related to data privacy, please contact: careers@xsolla.com Explore more opportunities at: https://xsolla.com/careers ## About Xsolla ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Xsolla is a global commerce and financial technology company that provides a comprehensive suite of tools and services for video game developers and publishers, including payments, distribution, marketing, and monetization solutions. - **Entity Type**: Private (Privately Held) - **Headquarters**: Sherman Oaks (Los Angeles), California, United States - **Founded**: 2005 - **Founders**: Aleksandr Agapitov (Founder & CEO) ## Core Business - **Industries**: Video game commerce, financial technology, payment processing, distribution, and capital markets for interactive entertainment. - **Target Customers**: B2B – game developers and publishers of all sizes, from indie studios to AAA enterprises. - **Mission**: "We bring opportunities together for the video game industry" – helping creators fund, launch, distribute, and monetize games globally. ## Products & Services - **Xsolla Payment Solutions**: Global payment orchestration supporting 1000+ payment methods, 130+ currencies, and 200+ geographies. Operates as the merchant of record. - **Xsolla Web Shop**: White-label direct-to-consumer storefronts that allow developers to sell games and in-game items with higher margins. - **Xsolla Launcher & Distribution**: Cross-platform game distribution tools and launcher solutions for PC and mobile. - **Xsolla Partnership Network**: Marketing and audience acquisition services. - **Xsolla Capital Markets Group (CMG)**: Institutional capital platform providing debt, credit, and special situations financing for game studios, supported by proprietary market intelligence and an LP/investor network. - **Xsolla Storefront** (in development): White-label Android game store designed for large-file distribution, download management, and multi-tenant theming. - **Xsolla Anti-Fraud & Compliance**: Risk management and compliance tools tailored to digital gaming transactions. ## Market Standing - **Valuation**: Not publicly available. - **Annual Revenue**: ~$100 million (source: LinkedIn data). - **Total Funding**: Not disclosed (private, bootstrapped/growth equity?). - **Notable Partners & Clients**: Valve, Twitch, Epic Games, PUBG Corporation, and thousands of other game developers (1,500+ mentioned on careers page). - **Growth Signals**: - 1,079 full-time employees (as of 2025; up ~22% YoY based on earlier LinkedIn data). - 16 global offices across Los Angeles, London, Berlin, Dubai, Kuala Lumpur, Tokyo, Beijing, and more. - 3,000+ direct-to-consumer web shops launched. - 258,343,632 Pay Station visits in 2024. - 180.5 million average daily developer API calls. - 99.98% platform uptime over the past 12 months. - Active expansion of Capital Markets Group with hires in New York, Middle East, and Singapore. ## Competitive Advantages - **Exclusive video game focus** – All products and services are built specifically for the games industry, unlike generic payment processors. - **Global merchant of record** – Handles tax, compliance, and fraud in 200+ territories, reducing friction for developers. - **Relationships with major platforms** – Deep integrations with Steam, Twitch, Epic Games Store, etc. - **Scale and reliability** – Proven ability to handle hundreds of millions of transactions annually with near-perfect uptime. - **Capital and investment arm** – Unique ability to provide financing to studios, creating stickiness and aligning incentives. ## Strategic Focus - Scaling the **Capital Markets Group** as an independent institutional platform serving the interactive entertainment ecosystem (debt, special situations, principal investments). - Building a **white-label Android game store** to capture mobile distribution and compete with traditional app stores. - Deepening **AI integration** across QA, testing, and hiring processes (Director of QA role explicitly mentions AI-assisted testing; AI used in recruitment). - Expanding presence in high-growth markets: **Japan** (CMO/VP Marketing role), Middle East, and Southeast Asia. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: "We build from the inside out" – competitive salary, flexible time off, hybrid/remote options, health insurance, retirement programs, family leave, generous in-office amenities, disability and life insurance. - **Work Model**: Hybrid and remote available across global offices. - **Engineering Culture**: High ownership, modern stack (Android/Kotlin, large-file distribution, multi-tenant theming, CI/CD, cloud infrastructure). Engineers work on greenfield projects like the white-label game store. - **Growth Opportunities**: New hires in the Capital Markets group have "executive sponsorship, meaningful ownership, and the mandate to build a durable franchise." Rapidly scaling company with expanding teams. - **Global, diverse team**: Employees from 52+ countries; offices in 12 countries. ## Sources 1. [Xsolla Careers](https://xsolla.com/careers) 2. [LinkedIn – Xsolla Company Profile](https://linkedin.com/company/xsolla) 3. [Xsolla About Us](https://xsolla.com/about-us) 4. [Xsolla Culture & Values](https://xsolla.com/our-culture-and-values) 5. 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