Cerebral Valley – Week of August 4th 🗓

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August 04, 2025

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Open Jobs

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1) Research Scientist 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: Past publications in top research conferences • Experience researching in academia, top AI labs, or hedge funds • Deep understanding of Pytorch, RL, LLMs, and Embedding Models • High agency and following latest research trends

2) AI Product Engineer 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 LLMs and their place in product • Demonstrated zero-to-one experience from idea to production

3) Founding Engineer at YC-Backed Commerce Startup (NYC)

- About: Seed funding • Just Below $1mm ARR organic • 26% MoM growth, 100 customers, expanding nationwide

-Ideal candidate: Previous startup experience or engineer at comparable fintech or sales platform • Absolute grinder, willing to set the intense engineering culture • 5+ YoE scaling stable systems at companies like Gusto, Ramp, Goldman

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Events List

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

CV Events:

🗓️ Saturday, August 23rd - Sunday, August 24th
📍 New York, NY

Cerebral Valley is hosting NYC's first-ever AI Fintech Hackathon on August 23-24!

This 2-day hackathon is where top-tier builders, engineers, and founders collide with the most powerful use-cases for AI - finance, payments and infra.

We've curated a list of problem statements for hackers to solve. The Top 3 teams will receive cash and credits as prizes 👀

Featured in August:

🗓️ Tuesday, August 5th
📍 San Francisco, CA

​This is a series of events where AI dev tool founders, builders, and practitioners showcase some of the most important tools in the industry, as well as all the work and thoughts that went into building those.

​Our past speakers include the founders of Netlify, Docker, Neon, and Gatsby, as well as a lead DevRel from Google DeepMind.

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🗓️ Saturday, August 9th
📍 New York, NY

​​​​​Code NYC is where product-minded builders and technical founders come to launch real, usable apps — not just demos.

​We’re here for Builders shipping:

  • ​Wallet-native user experiences

  • ​Revenue-generating agents

  • ​Frictionless onboarding and payment flows

  • ​Tools that people actually use

​This is a hackathon built for early-stage startups, repeat shippers, and technical entrepreneurs who want to validate quickly and launch with conviction.

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🗓️ Monday, August 11th
📍 New York, NY

​This workshop is for developers and AI agent builders who want to run open-source coding agents in the cloud, as part of a team, with the right infrastructure behind them.

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🗓️ Tuesday, August 12th
📍 San Francisco, CA

Agentic AI is one of the hottest topic in Generative AI today. The applications are changing our lives and the way we work - opening up new use cases and opportunities.

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🗓️ Friday, August 15th
📍 San Francisco, CA

​​​​Join us for a special keynote presentation on the detailed product vision of the Hyperspace Agentic OS, including an extended live demo of our breakthrough new agentic browser with it's spatial AI, and the announcement of the first-ever agentic blockchain protocol.

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🗓️ Thursday, October 2nd
📍 San Francisco, CA

VapiCon is a voice AI summit tailored for developers. Join us on October 2, 2025, in San Francisco for a one-day event bringing together engineers, developers, and industry leaders to explore innovations and the future of voice AI.

Learn about building, deploying, and scaling voice AI agents, explore modern architectural designs, and discuss where the voice AI industry is headed. The event features talks from experts, including voices from Top Research Labs, Vapi, Deepgram, Assembly, Coval, Krisp, Ultravox, Rime Labs, and others.

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This Week in SF:

🗓️ Thursday, August 7
📍 San Francisco, CA

​Back by popular demand, WorkOS presents the second installment of MCP Night, bringing together the community building at the cutting edge of AI and MCP. Join us at the historic Regency Ballroom for an evening of demos and discussions.

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🗓️ Thursday, August 7
📍 San Francisco, CA

Discover how you can drive real-world impact by building scalable LLM solutions for our most ambitious clients. Meet Palantirians who are shaping the future of AI, see our technology in action, and engage directly with our hiring team to learn about the interview process and what it takes to join our mission-driven team.

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🗓️ Saturday, August 9
📍 San Francisco, CA

​​​​​​Are you ready to shape the future of AI? Come to the YC Office and help build the next generation of AI Coding Agents—tools that can build websites, games, solve coding problems, and anything else you imagine.

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This Week in NYC:

🗓️ Wednesday, August 6
📍 New York, NY

​​Join us for an evening focused on building and investing in AI, featuring a panel of VC investors focused on AI followed by a fireside chat with Mike Wilner, NYC based Startup GTM at OpenAI.

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🗓️ Thursday, August 7
📍 New York, NY

​​​Join us for an NYC AI Builders + Engineers Happy Hour with Comma Capital & GV.

​We’re excited to bring together folks building in AI in New York.

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🗓️ Saturday, August 9
📍 New York, NY

This event is dedicated to fostering a supportive and inclusive environment, especially for women, minority coders, and immigrant founders. Whether you're a seasoned developer looking to sharpen your skills or a creative thinker with a big idea, this is your launchpad.

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