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AI / Software Engineer – Working Student

GovernLens · Munich

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AI / Software Engineer – Working Student

GovernLens8 hours agoWorking Student

HybridEnglish requiredTech AI, ML & Data Science

Required skills

Vector DatabasesDeploymentAPI DevelopmentFull-stack DevelopmentRAGAgentic FlowsCode ReviewData PipelinesPythonData IngestionTypeScriptPrompt EngineeringKnowledge GraphLLM

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Job description

GovernLens published this listing. We've added our own working-student context below — what this role means for your weekly hours, take-home pay and student visa as a student in Munich, Germany.

Description provided by GovernLens

Help build the AI-native OS for political professionals.

Political developments shape every market and organization, yet they remain hard and costly to understand. GovernLens AI fixes this: we turn scattered parliamentary data, news, and stakeholder signals into strategic insight, used by Members of Parliament, public affairs consultancies, and corporates.

Our mission: strengthen democratic decision-making with transparent, fact-based political intelligence.

The role

As a working student, you'll ship real product alongside the founding team, not throwaway side projects. You'll work ~20 hours/week, flexibly around your lectures (more during semester breaks), across:

LLM & RAG engineering — build retrieval pipelines, prompt patterns, agentic flows, and evaluation harnesses; push prototypes into production.
Data ingestion & knowledge graph — build ingest jobs for parliamentary, news, and stakeholder sources, and structure data so downstream AI can reason across it.
Full-stack delivery — ship features across TypeScript and Python: frontend, backend APIs, and data pipelines. Touch the whole product.
Production & mentorship — pair with the founders on architecture, code review, and deployment, and see how a startup ships under real customer constraints.

Your profile

Enrolled student in Computer Science, AI, Data Science, or a related field, with strong software engineering fundamentals.
Working knowledge of TypeScript and Python; comfortable across frontend, APIs, and data, and fast at picking up the rest.
Hands-on with LLMs/RAG, prompt engineering, vector databases, or agents
Builder mindset: you ship, AI-enabled coding workflows are second nature, and you're curious about politics, AI, or both.

Why GovernLens

Mission that matters: work on a product with positive socio-political impact that strengthens democratic institutions; code you ship is used by Members of Parliament and political consultancies.
Real ownership: a young, dynamic, fast-paced team with flat hierarchies and close collaboration. We genuinely want your insights and opinions, not just your output.
Founder-led engineering: daily pairing, code review, and architecture decisions with the founding team, on a modern AI stack (TypeScript, Python, LLM APIs, vector DBs, agentic flows).
Grow with us: experience a startup scale from the inside, with a clear path to a long-term, full-time role (and a thesis collaboration if you want one).
Backed by top institutions: invited to present in the German Bundestag; backed by TUM, Cyber Valley (Europe's top AI research hub), and UnternehmerTUM (Europe's #1 startup hub, Financial Times); selected for Public Value Academy

Details

Type: Working student (m/f/d), paid
Hours: ~20h/week, flexible around your studies
Location: Munich · Hybrid
Start: 01.07.2026

Working student essentials

What this Tech working student role in Munich means for you — the weekly-hours rules, social-contribution perks, and what international students should check before applying.

Weekly hours

Working students may work up to 20 hours a week during the semester and full-time during the breaks. Staying within this keeps your student status and the Werkstudent benefits.

Working student rules

Social contributions

Under the Werkstudentenprivileg you're exempt from health, care and unemployment insurance contributions — only pension insurance applies. That leaves more net pay than a regular job.

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International students

Non-EU students can work 140 full or 280 half days per year (raised from 120/240 in March 2024). A working student contract usually fits within this — confirm the exact limits printed on your residence permit.

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