Software Engineering Intern / Working Student

Who we are: Tenpal is an early-stage AI startup building an AI Bid Agent for public tenders. We automatically search, analyze, and prepare applications for public tenders — turning public procurement into a revenue channel that scales without adding headcount. No more PDFs, no copy-paste, no missed deadlines. Work that used to take a whole bid team now runs autonomously. Problem we solve: Nearly half of all public tenders in Germany get exactly one bidder. The government wastes billions each year because 80% of companies in Germany don't participate in this market — little transparency, overcomplicated application processes, no market dynamics. We're changing that, giving everyone access and lowering the barrier to participate to near zero. What you'll do: You work directly with our co-founder . You will own a problem, ideate around potential solution, build it, and see it in front of real customers within days. Ship features into the live product: frontend, backend, or the AI pipelines in betweenBuild AI-first by default — LLMs, retrieval, and agents are the tools you reach for, not a special caseOwn a scoped piece of the product end to end, from first idea to what customers actually useSit in on customer calls, roadmap decisions, and the reasoning behind them Who we're looking for You already build things on your own — one or two side projects, a tool you made because you wanted it to exist, something you shipped without anyone askingNatural curiosity for AI-first building — you experiment with new models and tools because you want to know what they can doStudying computer science or something adjacent is ideal, but not a requirement. We care about what you've built, not what's on your transcriptSelf-driven — you don't wait for instructions, you dig into the problem yourself and come back with a solution Bonus points if you have experience with LLM APIs, prompt engineering, retrieval, or agentic workflowsParsing, generating, or filling complex forms and PDFsAnything you've shipped publicly — a repo, a live tool, a small product with real users Why Tenpal Paid internship (min. three month or longer)Unmatched learning: you partner directly with a co-founder and see how an AI product, a company, and a market get built from the insideFlexible setup (Berlin preferred, remote possible)Solve a structural problem with high impact Apply Send me a short intro (nothing formal) to: Constantin Franzen, Co-Founder constantin@tenpal.de https://tenpal.de https://www.linkedin.com/in/constantin-franzen Tell me briefly who you are, what you're currently doing, and why the role interests you.