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CV has a stacked list of events coming up for you all 🫵🏻

• 📌 Cartesia x Anthropic Voice Agents Hackathon hosted by Notion

  Build the next generation of voice-first AI agents that combine real-time audio with reasoning, memory, and action; open for engineers, startup founders, early teams, and EPD leaders
  👉 Register here

• Vercel x Equinox v0 Workshop

  On January 30, top developers, founders, and product-minded builders will convene at Equinox Sports Club SF for a workshop on building and shipping real-world wellness applications using v0.
  👉 Register here

• Gemini 3 SuperHack

  On January 31, ahead of Super Bowl weekend, CV is bringing Gemini 3 to the spotlight in SF. Come reimagine sports and live entertainment across all leagues and formats.

  👉 Register here

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• Meta treats AI like resource extraction ⚡ $600B/3yrs means energy, GPUs, and geopolitics matter more than chips or models

• Ramp’s Inspect agent wrote 30% of merged PRs last week 🚀; open-sourced today runs in the cloud, no setup

• CV is hiring for a Newsletter Editorial Lead; the newsletter serving as the go-to launch pad for OpenAI, Nebius, DeepMind, and the hottest startups 😎

Open Jobs

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

1) Founding Engineer at Online Psychiatry Startup (SF)

- Building: Easy access to online psychiatric help & medication, with an in-house clinic
- About: YC-backed • $7M+ total raised • $3M ARR • Top provider of affordable patient-first care • Agentic booking & care software serving 2,000+ patients to date
- Ideal candidate: Highly proficient in typescript • Have owned 0 to 1 engineering at a past startup • You view LLMs as colleagues, using multiple agents in parallel regularly

2) Developer Relations Engineer at OSS Authentication Framework (SF)

- Building: Streamlined & comprehensive authentication system for Typescript
- About: 25k+ stars on Github • Allowing teams to roll their own auth, fast • Small team of <4, with high ownership • YC-backed • Over 10 million monthly downloads
- Ideal candidate: Comfortable acting as the public face of the company • Highly active on LinkedIn and X • Experience building reference apps, demos, videos, and educational content • Kill friction in the developer experience

3) AI Product Engineer at Agent Reliability Research Lab (SF)

- Building: Research lab building products for last-mile agent reliability & improvement
- About: $30M+ raised in just last 5 months, including Lightspeed • Team of <20 shipping like they’re 50+ headcount • Clients include Rogo, Delve, Propel, Clado
- Ideal candidate: Intense engineer with 2+ years of experience • Able to work hard, play hard with the team in-office • Strong quality taste in software • LLM native, and obsessively trying the latest and greatest tools

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.

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