AI Engineer - Remote

AI Engineer to build Periskope’s AI-native product and engineering harness. This is a hands-on IC role for a software engineer who is strong with cloud, modern AI tooling, and shipping AI-powered products.

Company Details
Periskope is a WhatsApp operations platform used by 5,000+ businesses across 50+ countries. It combines shared inboxes, workflows, integrations, automation, and AI agents for sales, support, and operations.
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Requirements

• 2–4 years of experience in software engineering

• Currently working at a product-based startup or scale-up

• Strong software engineering fundamentals with an AI-native mindset

• Proven experience building and shipping products/features on top of AI/LLMs

• Strong hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure and cloud-native development

• Comfortable building production systems end-to-end with high ownership

• Experience with LLM APIs, agents, RAG, tool calling, MCP, or similar AI application patterns

• Strong coding skills in one or more modern programming languages

• Ability to work as a hands-on individual contributor in a small engineering team

• Strong proof of work: shipped AI projects, GitHub repositories, products, demos, or other tangible work

• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills

• Comfortable working in an ambiguous, fast-moving startup environment

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve Periskope’s AI engineering harness and core AI capabilities

• Build production-grade AI features on top of foundation models

• Develop AI agents, tools, workflows, and integrations that can take meaningful actions

• Build reliable infrastructure for AI workloads across cloud services

• Experiment rapidly with new AI models, frameworks, tools, and development workflows

• Turn prototypes into scalable, maintainable production systems

• Improve AI reliability through evaluation, observability, logging, guardrails, and testing

• Integrate AI capabilities with APIs, databases, internal systems, and external tools

• Own engineering problems end-to-end, from architecture and implementation to deployment

• Work closely with the founding team to identify and solve high-impact product and engineering problems

Job Details

Remote

Interview Process

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15-Minute Founder Screening Call

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2-Hour Technical Round

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30-Minute Cultural Fit Round

Important Note
ClanX is a recruitment partner, helping Periskope hire an AI Engineer.

Highlights

Build AI-native systems at a fast-moving product startup where you’ll own the engineering harness powering the next generation of Periskope.

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