AI-First Engineering Intern(shanghai)

Socket.dev; United States; On-site; USD 36,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Xsolla is seeking an AI Engineer Intern to join a fast-paced, collaborative team in a global internship cohort. You will build proof-of-concept AI applications, integrate AI tooling into internal workflows, and ship real features that impact developers and gamers alike.

Ideal candidates are fluent in AI concepts, have used tools like Claude Code, Cursor, or Copilot, and thrive with minimal supervision. This internship emphasizes action, learning, and delivering meaningful work within 3–6 months.

Qualifications

• Genuine passion for building with AI, shown via side projects, hackathons, or open-source work.
• Actual use of agentic AI tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot) to build something and explain how it worked.
• Bias toward action when facing ambiguous problems.
• Comfort with developing modern full-stack solutions and rapid learning.
• Open to undergraduates, graduates, or recent grads in CS/SE or related fields (Bachelor's/Master's/Doctoral acceptable).
• Available to work 3–6 months, at least 4 days a week.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with senior engineers to identify AI tooling opportunities and implement fixes.
• Build applications and integrations on Xsolla APIs/SDKs to accelerate AI-enabled development.
• Enable the tech team with AI tools to improve efficiency.
• Deliver work that reaches real users, whether internal tools or customer-facing integrations.
• Use agentic coding tools as the standard working approach to daily tasks.
• Share progress in weekly 30-second lightning talks showcasing AI-driven solutions.

Skills

AI fluency

Bias toward action

Full-stack development

Agentic AI tools

Education

Bachelors/Masters/PhD in CS or related

Tools

Claude Code

Cursor

Copilot

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.

ABOUT YOU

We are looking for an AI Engineer Intern who is curious, self-directed, and genuinely excited about building things with AI to join our global internship cohort. The best candidate will be someone who thrives in a fast-paced, highly collaborative, and exceptionally dynamic setting and is excited to drive internal AI initiatives and build proof-of-concept applications that show our teams what's possible when AI is a core part of the workflow.

Real AI fluency and a bias toward action are essential, along with experience in building projects using agentic coding tools like Claude Code, Cursor, or Copilot – not just asking ChatGPT to explain concepts. The ability to work with minimal process, figure things out independently, and ship work that reaches real users will be key to your success in this role.

If you’re passionate about building with AI as your default way of working and loveshipping code that matters – not throwaway exercises, we would love to hear from you!

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Empower the technology department with AI tools to improve project efficiency.
• 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.
• 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 – participate in weekly 30-second lightning-talk demos showing how you used AI to solve something that week.
• Work with minimal process – get context, a problem, and a mentor; the rest is on you to figure out and build.
• Learn from and collaborate with both senior engineers (who'll mentor you on production-grade practices) and fellow interns across markets (who'll trade ideas and code with you at weekly demos).

Qualifications and Skills

• Genuine passion for building – you have side projects, hackathon entries, open-source contributions, or something you shipped just because you were curious.
• Real AI fluency – you've actually used tools like Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, or similar agentic coding tools to build something, and you can explain how you used AI to get there and how you confirmed it actually worked.
• 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. Bachelor's, Master's, and Doctoral degrees are all acceptable.
• Available to work 3 to 6 months, at least 4 days a week.

Nice to Have

• Previous internship experience in software engineering or related fields.
• Familiarity with Xsolla's products, APIs, or the gaming commerce ecosystem.
• Experience with full-stack development frameworks (React, Next.js, Node.js, etc.).
• Contributions to open-source projects or active GitHub portfolio with recent, self-directed work.
• Experience building proof-of-concept or prototype applications in a fast-paced environment.

Job Description

This job description is intended to outline the general nature and level of work currently performed and is not an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, or qualifications required.

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In accordance with the Personal Information Protection Law of the People's Republic of China (PIPL):

• Purpose Limitation: Your data will only be used for current and future recruitment considerations within Xsolla.
• Sensitivity: We will handle your personal information with a high duty of care.
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If your application proceeds past the final interview stage, we may conduct a background check, subject to applicable laws and regulations, only after obtaining your separate written consent. Any such check will be strictly limited to information directly relevant to the employment relationship (e.g., educational background, employment history) and will comply fully with the PIPL. Your personal information will be used solely for recruitment and human resource management purposes, and we will implement rigorous security measures to protect your data.

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