(Intern) Builder

Your impact

As an intern at Tacto, you'll have real impact and real ownership. We only bring on people we trust to lead projects independently and would want to work with long-term.

At Tacto, product manager and engineer are one role: the Builder. As an Intern Builder you find a problem worth solving, talk to the customers who have it, build the solution with AI, and ship it to the procurement teams who rely on Tacto. By the end you'll have shipped things to customers, built alongside strong role models, and left with a network that lasts.

What you'll work on

You join a pod of 1–3 Builders on one of the quarter's bets: the platform, our AI agents, integrations, or the data layer underneath. Depending on interest and capacity, there are usually chances to contribute to cross-functional projects too.

How it works

1. Say hello: we get to know you and what you want to build

2. Case: you work on a case with Builders from the team

3. We place you in a pod, and you ship from day one

We also host regular events with top founders and speakers from the startup ecosystem (Lunch & Learns, hackathons), so you see 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: a startup, a scale-up, a 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 test new models the day they drop. If your default for a hard problem isn't “let me see what I can do with AI”, this isn't the role

• You've shipped something with code, whether or not you studied CS: side projects, OSS, AI tools, something people use

• Self-driven and naturally curious: you don't need hand-holding

• Strong communication skills in German and English

• You care about the problem we're solving: helping European industry stay competitive for the long term

Where our previous interns work now

After Tacto, over 10 former interns have founded their own companies, 3 of them already through Y Combinator. Others joined programs like CDTM, moved into top tech firms, or joined early-stage startups and VCs.

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 product's 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. We're 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 Europe's leading tech entrepreneurs and industry veterans.

Why It Matters

Manufacturing forms Europe's economic backbone, driving a fourth of Europe's 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. Europe's 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. You'll 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 that's 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

• Time off: 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.