(Intern, Technical) Builder in Residence

Your Impact

As an intern at Tacto youll have real impact and real ownership. Its important for us to give motivated ambitious students a steep learning curve and an honest look at what it takes to build one of Europes fastest-growing startups. We hold interns to the same bar as full-time hires which means we only bring on people who we trust to lead projects independently and who wed genuinely want to work with long-term.

The Builder in Residence track is for people who want to build the product itself - the platform the agents the integrations the data layer that procurement teams across Europe rely on. Youll join one of our technical teams - Product Design Engineering or Data Automation based on where your skills and our needs align. By the end of the program youll have shipped things to our customers built alongside strong role models and walked away with a network that lasts.

Where you might work

Depending on the match you could join one of these teams:

• Product Define what we build and why. Talk to customers prototype prioritize and ship features that move procurement teams from spreadsheets to AI-native operations

• Design Own how Tacto looks and feels. Design the patterns for how procurement professionals supervise AI agents - challenges no one has solved before

• Engineering Build the platform the agentic systems and the infrastructure powering autonomous procurement. Modern stack high ownership fast feedback loops

• Data Automation Bridge our platform with customer data. Design pipelines drive technical onboarding and make Tacto work end-to-end inside the worlds leading industrial companies

How it Works

1. You apply once - this application covers all our technical internship positions

2. Tell us your preferences - rank the areas youre most interested in (we ask in the application form)

3. First call - well come prepared with a clear proposal on which team we think fits best and why. We discuss your skills our needs and where you can have the most impact

4. Case study - if we move forward youll work on a technical case with the team lead from your proposed department

5. We match and place you - you join a specific team & are all set to ship from day 1

Once youre in youll work primarily in your team. Depending on interest and capacity there are usually opportunities to contribute to cross-functional projects as well to broaden your horizon.

We also host regular events with top-tier founders and speakers from the startup ecosystem e.g. Andreas Klinger at Lunch & Learn 2-day AI Hackathon in our office Basti Schuon at Lunch & Learn so you get exposure to the full picture of building a startup not just your corner of it.

What you need to work at Tacto

• Experience in a fast-paced environment (startup scale-up strong technical project whatever pushed you)

• AI native - you live in Cursor Claude ChatGPT v0 Lovable or whatever ships next. You build agents automate your own workflows and treat new models as tools to test the day they drop. If your default for a hard problem isnt let me see what I can do with AI this isnt the role

• Self-driven Naturally curious - you dont need hand-holding

• A real builder mindset: youve shipped side projects contributed to OSS hacked on AI tools or built something people use

• Strong communication skills in German and English

• You care about the problem we are solving & are mission-aligned - helping the European Industry to stay competitive in the long-term

• For Design: a portfolio or shipped work that shows taste systems thinking and ability to simplify complexity

• For Engineering: comfort with a modern stack (TypeScript Python or similar) shipped projects and an instinct for clean fast iteration

Where our previous interns work now

After Tacto over 10 former interns have founded their own companies with e.g. 3 already going through Y Combinator. Others have joined programs like CDTM (5 acceptances) moved into top tech firms or joined early-stage startups and VCs. The common thread: they all got a real understanding of what it takes to build and scale a company.

Our Background

Tacto is building the intelligence layer that connects AI to the physical world of manufacturing starting with procurement. AI is transforming every industry but it stops at the factory gate. The knowledge that holds manufacturing together - part costs suppliers materials - is scattered across systems and people. Over 50% of a products cost originates from suppliers making procurement the single largest cost lever in manufacturing and the missing connection between the digital and the physical world. Yet it still runs on Excel and legacy systems. Were changing that with our Procurement Intelligence Platform trusted by hundreds of companies running billions of Euros of material.

Based in Munich we are 100 passionate builders who are in-office with high expectations fast growth and a lot of fun. We are supported by >50m from Sequoia Index and Europes leading tech entrepreneurs and industry veterans.

Why It Matters

Manufacturing forms Europes economic backbone driving a fourth of Europes GDP and providing over 30% of jobs. These hidden champions and global market leaders manufacture the physical world around us from the machines that build our cities to the medical devices that save lives.

But the world is changing. The US dominates the digital world of bits. China is scaling the world of atoms manufacturing at unprecedented speed and scale. Geopolitics are more uncertain than ever. Europes strength lies in its deep industrial knowledge through generations of engineering. Manufacturing worldwide runs on European machines and software. But that heritage is only an advantage if we leverage it in the age of AI.

Tacto builds the AI that connects Atoms and Bits empowering our Industrial Base to Stay Stronger and building a lighthouse for European tech.

What We Offer

The people at Tacto are passionate about building the organization growing themselves and our product while having fun and being real. We have high expectations great talent density and a culture where your ambition performance and agency are what count - not where you come from or how big your ego is. Youll grow at the forefront of AI have real ownership and impact and be surrounded by the best people in their field who challenge you and make you better every day. That is demanding and rewarding but thats where we thrive. Besides that you have:

• Money: Competitive salary & equity in the company with real upside so you are invested in our success

• Workplace: A vibrant in-office culture (> 4 days/week) in a beautiful office in central Munich

• Development: A development budget and regular exposure to exceptional people e.g. Lunch & Learns peer mentoring external speakers

• Freetime: 26 4 vacation days per year (4 fixed company rest days) as well as regular off-sites and team events

• Health: Wellpass membership of course a fruit basket (!) and access to Jobrad for your health

• Family & Social Security: Voluntary pension contribution voluntary KITA subsidy for your children

Tacto is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race religion sexual orientation age marital status disability or gender identity. Please do not submit personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin political opinions religious or philosophical beliefs trade union membership data concerning your health or data concerning your sexual orientation.

Required Experience:

Intern