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Cerebral Valley – Week of August 25th 🗓

Cerebral Valley – Week of August 25th 🗓

The latest in AI Products, News, Jobs and Events

August 25, 2025

CV • Instagram • X • All Events

Our AI Fintech Hackathon was one for the books! Check out the recap here.

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Open Jobs

Looking to hire the best talent? Reach out to [email protected] to see how we can help.

1) Full Stack Engineer at Financial AI Lab (NYC)

- About: Founders with previous 9-figure exit • Top investors including Garry Tan and hedge fund founders • Building OpenAI for finance
-Ideal candidate: 3+ years experience building in AI, crypto, or finance • Alum from Stripe, Ramp, Plaid, or other fintech unicorns • Experience in Python / Go backend + React / Next frontend • Fit in with research-driven culture and bridge the gap

2) Frontend Engineer at Codegen Automation Startup (SF)

- About: Backed by Sequoia & other Tier 1 VCs • Top research & engineering culture at the forefront of software automation • $10m+ funding raised
-Ideal candidate: Able to innovate and develop novel human-AI interaction • 4+ years experience building scalable consumer web and native applications • Familiar with Typescript, React, Next & the likes • Native intuition for user interfaces and AI usage

3) Designer at Agentic Research Lab (SF)

- About: Building state-of-the-art agents for human-AI interaction • Repeat founding team • Strong research culture from top PhD programs
-Ideal candidate: Experience at top consumer AI companies (Perplexity, Granola, Notion) • Native understanding of AI usage and interactions • Able to move fast from sketch to Figma in a day • Bridge the gap between cutting edge research and UX • Demonstrated experience designing AI-powered experiences

CV Event - AI Fintech Hackathon

Money never sleeps… 💻💰

This past weekend, we hosted our first-ever AI Fintech Hackathon for NYC’s top AI founders and builders. 48 hours. 100+ hackers. $10K in cash.

Huge shoutout to our title partners Anthropic, UBS and Rogo for bringing this event to life. Plus, shoutout to Basis, CodeRabbit, Nebius, Brave, Factory, Crossmint and Cline for their contributions, and The Malin for hosting us in their iconic space.

You can find all event photos here. One for the books 🍸

Spotlight - Building frontier AI products with Fin x Cognition x Harvey

With AI, it’s never been faster to build prototypes. But reliably delivering quality products still requires a lot of work.

Join AI experts at Fin, Cognition and Harvey to hear how leading AI products are built, from training models in-house to designing custom infrastructure and more.

Hear open, unscripted conversations with experienced AI leaders
Gain a practical understanding of how to design frontier AI products through technical deep-dives and case studies
See how Intercom built Fin

Save your seat—in-person in SF or livestreaming on LinkedIn & X

Events List

A curated list of upcoming AI events (view all events).

Featured in August:

SaaS Summit

🗓️ Wednesday, August 27th
📍 San Francisco, CA

Join us for the first-ever SaaS Summit at the AWS Builder Loft (GenAI Loft) and enjoy an evening of lightning talks focused on picking the right tools for SaaS in 2025. Meet like-minded founders, network with the web dev community, and dive into codegen and building modern SaaS.