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Cerebral Valley – Week of December 15th 🗓
Introducing CV's Technical Interview Common App: fast-track into multiple AI startups — plus read about the latest in AI, our Open Roles, and more...
🔥 Cerebral Valley is introducing the Technical Interview Common App.
One 30-minute technical interview = get fast-tracked into 5-10 AI startups at once. We’re opening a limited number of slots for full-stack, backend, FDEs, and AI/ML engineers 🫵🏻
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Watch our official recap on the Gemini 3 SF Hackathon ✨
Open Jobs
Looking to hire the best talent? Reach out to [email protected] to see how we can help.
1) Agent Engineer at AI Media Startup (SF)
- Building: Agentic media production platform, “Lovable for creatives”
- About: Well-funded preseed • Small but elite team of <5 • Founded by founder of Soundcloud and Dance • Founded raised $500m+ for previous companies
- Ideal candidate: Demonstrated experience in using LLMs in production & to build quickly • 4+ years of experience in professional software engineering at early stage startups • Hungry engineers willing to grind in-office with the team
2) AI Engineer at Construction Automation Startup (SF)
- Building: AI agents for construction, “Harvey for real estate development”
- About: Backed by CEO of Blackstone & others • Harvard-founded • Clients include Tishman Speyer & premier real estate firms • Solving frontier geospatial AI problems
- Ideal candidate: Experience building production-ready agents • Python or typescript expertise • Strong preference for ex-founders or ex-founding engineers
3) Full Stack Engineer at AI Documentation Startup (SF)
- Building: AI documentation platform used by 10,000+ companies to date
- About: Backed by A16z, YC & other Tier 1 VCs • Tech powers over 10,000 companies to date & rapidly growing • $20m+ funding raised with small team
- Ideal candidate: 3+ years experience including consumer or B2B startups • Innate ability to build from 0 to 1 with low ego • Strong full stack engineering ability with high agency • Strong in-person work culture & desire to collaborate heavily with the team
If you’re interested in the above roles, please email [email protected] with your LinkedIn, resume, and why you think you’re the best fit. We’ll be in touch if there’s a match.
Events List
A curated list of upcoming AI events (view all events).
Featured in December:
🗓️ Saturday, January 10th
📍 San Francisco, CA
We all know the power of AI agents, and people are rapidly adopting them across industries. In a world of agents, how can they work together? Soon, we’ll need to orchestrate agents across platforms for unified goals.
Build with MongoDB and the best hackers in AI to enable agentic collaboration for the future, building tools, agents, and techniques to allow agents to communicate, share context, and work together to achieve ever more complex goals.
Winning teams will get over $25,000 in cash prizes 👀
🗓️ Thursday, January 15th
📍 San Francisco, CA
The Bay Area’s top AI founders are building what’s next, and MongoDB is bringing them together at our .local SF conference.
Join hundreds of founders, builders, and leaders from across the Bay Area startup ecosystem to learn how high-growth startups are moving from prototype to production, shipping faster with MongoDB, and unlocking new opportunities for growth.
🗓️ Friday, January 16th
📍 San Francisco, CA
MongoDB is taking over the iconic AGI House for a night the Bay Area will not forget. Invited guests can expect a completely transformed, immersive, VIP-experience where every guest is treated like a high-roller.
This Week in SF:
🗓️ Monday, December 15th
📍 San Francisco, CA
We're so back(end). Join founders, builders, and engineers for an evening focused on shipping backends on Vercel
Register
🗓️ Tuesday, December 16th
📍 San Francisco, CA
On scaling laws & emergent capabilities, production-ready techniques, research → startup opportunities, and what's actually new vs. hype.
Register
🗓️ Tuesday, December 16th
📍 San Francisco, CA
Join us for an exciting evening covering the top startup trends and predictions in Generative AI.
This Week in NYC:
🗓️ Tuesday, December 16th
📍 New York City, NY
Join TON US Hub + AWS for a holiday networking party welcoming builders, founders, engineers, and projects into the growing TON Mini App ecosystem.
Register
🗓️ Wednesday, December 17th
📍 New York City, NY
Join a Claude Code Community Event, organized by local Claude Code enthusiasts for everyone who loves building with Claude Code!
🗓️ Monday, December 22nd
📍 New York City, NY
Join us to meet other founders, builders, and investors. Whether you’re building a company, exploring a side project, or considering a new idea, we would love to have you here.
Register
Planning an upcoming event? Submit an event to our AI Event Feature.
Final Note…
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