The posting
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. Website: https://periskope.app/
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
- 15-Minute Founder Screening Call
- 2-Hour Technical Round
- 30-Minute Cultural Fit Round
Important Note ClanX is a recruitment partner, helping Periskope hire an AI Engineer.



