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 between
• Build AI-first by default — LLMs, retrieval, and agents are the tools you reach for, not a special case
• Own a scoped piece of the product end to end, from first idea to what customers actually use
• Sit 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 asking
• Natural curiosity for AI-first building — you experiment with new models and tools because you want to know what they can do
• Studying computer science or something adjacent is ideal, but not a requirement. We care about what you've built, not what's on your transcript
• Self-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 workflows
• Parsing, generating, or filling complex forms and PDFs
• Anything 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 inside
• Flexible 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

[email protected]

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.