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Cerebral Valley – Week of January 5th 🗓
Read about the latest in AI Events, News, our Open Roles, and more...
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Open Jobs
Looking to hire the best talent? Reach out to [email protected] to see how we can help.
1) 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
2) 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
3) Forward Deployed AI Engineer at AI Transformation Startup (SF / NYC)
- About: Large unannounced funding rounds • Founded by former tier 1 investment partner & big tech veterans • Building custom AI solutions for enterprise • Too much inbound to handle
- Ideal candidate: 2+ years experience in a forward deployed or AI engineering role • Expertise in Python, LLMs, & ML technique tradeoffs • Able to interact with customers & manage technical / non-technical stakeholders • Can leverage and advise on code productivity 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, 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.
This Week in SF:
🗓️ Monday, January 5th
📍 San Francisco, CA
We're teaming up to kick off the next YC batch (W26) with an epic party and have reserved the entire Standard Deviant Brewing Pier 70. Come enjoy some delicious street food from our favorite local food truck, grab a drink (beer, wine, cider, or NA), and swap war stories with fellow YC founders.
🗓️ Wednesday, January 7th
📍 San Francisco, CA
Join us for the January edition of the San Francisco AI Engineers Tech Talk, a gathering focused exclusively on AI engineering. Whether you’re a seasoned machine learning engineer or a fullstack dev curious about how to work with LLMs, this is your space to dive deep into real-world projects, technical challenges, and creative solutions.
🗓️ Thursday, January 8th
📍 San Francisco, CA
What does it take to deliver production-ready Voice AI experiences? Join Modal, Phonic, and Hume in an evening thinking about the real-world requirements for Voice AI
Register
This Week in NYC:
🗓️ Wednesday, January 7th
📍 New York City, NY
Spend the day coworking with fellow female SaaS and AI founders. If your startup is in market with paying customers, or has raised venture capital, we'd love to have you join us.
Register
🗓️ Thursday, January 8th
📍 New York City, NY
Ten years ago, virtual reality introduced a new way to walk into stories. This event provides a rare opportunity to experience these landmark works together and engage in discussion around how stories are made, shared, and felt, amidst the latest wave of AI and other emerging technologies.
Register
🗓️ Sunday, January 11th
📍 New York City, NY
In this 3-hour workshop, you will learn to vibe code small apps from scratch that connect to real data! No coding experience is required and all tools are supported including Figma Make, Cursor, and Claude Code.
Register
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Final Note…
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