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Cerebral Valley – Week of January 26th 🗓
Join us at one of our three events this week or the next — plus catch the latest AI events, news, open roles, and more...


CV has a stacked list of events this week & the next 🫵🏻
📌 Cartesia x Anthropic Voice Agents Hackathon hosted by Notion
From February 7 — 8, 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 hereVercel 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 hereGemini 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.
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How Clawdbot remembers everything through a local approach 🤯
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.
Events List
A curated list of upcoming AI events (view all events).
Featured in January:
🗓️ Saturday, February 7th
📍 San Francisco, CA
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
This Week in SF:
🗓️ Tuesday, January 27th
📍 San Francisco, CA
The program will feature perspectives from Meta’s Superintelligence Labs and Snowflake, with an emphasis on real-world workflows, technical depth, and practical takeaways.
🗓️ Thursday, January 29th
📍 San Francisco, CA
v0 is getting ready for biggest product update yet. Join us in the studio for early access. Open build sessions all day.
Register
🗓️ Thursday, January 29th
📍 San Francisco, CA
Hack Night at GitHub. This is a night for building. No long talks. No pitches. No noise. Just a room full of builders, powerful AI tools, and one simple goal: leave with something real.
Register
This Week in NYC:
🗓️ Wednesday, January 28th
📍 New York City, NY
Join the Stripe founder community for a day of hands-on building and coworking with the Stripe team. Whether you’re looking for a chance to connect with other founders, 1:1 guidance from the Stripe team, or just a change of scenery, we’d love to have you join.
Register
🗓️ Thursday, January 29th
📍 New York City, NY
Come celebrate the start of Cohort Two: a community of builders, artists, technologists, and troublemakers coming together in a new space in downtown Manhattan to explore what AI makes possible.
Register
🗓️ Thursday, January 29th
📍 New York City, NY
Encord is bringing AI After Hours to NYC for the first time, in partnership with Modal.
Register
Planning an upcoming event? Submit an event to our AI Event Feature.
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