Cerebral Valley – Week of July 28th 🗓

The latest in AI Products, News, Jobs and Events

July 28, 2025

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Open Jobs

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1) Applied Researcher at Defense Tech Startup (Bay Area) 

  • About the company:

    • Deep military connections

    • Multiple PoC trials with various government organizations

    • Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia, US Army founding team

    • Building adversarial command and control voice models 

  • Ideal candidate:

    • Demonstrated ship ability with past projects & roles

    • “Young and hungry”, preferring ability to learn over experience

    • Familiar with social engineering, red teaming, security, and fine-tuning

    • Bonus points for experience at Anduril, Palantir, Lockheed, & similar

2) AI Product Designer at Agentic Research Lab

  • About the company:

    • Building state-of-the-art agents for human-AI interaction

    • Repeat and experienced founding team

    • Strong research culture from top PhD programs

  • Ideal candidate:

    • Previous experience in top consumer AI products (Perplexity, Granola, Notion, etc)

    • Native understanding of AI usage and interactions

    • Able to move fast and go from sketch to Figma in a day

    • Bridge the gap between cutting edge research and natural UX

    • Demonstrated previous work designing AI-powered experiences

3) Technical Co-Founder at YC-Backed Commerce Startup (NYC)

  • About the company:

    • Seed stage funding

    • Just below $1mm ARR organic

    • 26% MoM growth, 100 customers, expanding nationwide

  • Ideal candidate:

    • Previous startup experience or at comparable fintech / 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:

🗓️ Monday, August 4th
📍 New York, NY

Join us for a co-working day with AI builders & founders in NYC!

Work alongside others building in AI and get feedback from your peers. At the end of the day, we will have private demos to share our work!

​Space is limited. We prioritize exceptional builders in order of signup. Please showcase your best, current work with your application during registration!

Thank you to our venue partner - The Malin - for hosting us.

DM @cerebral_valley on Twitter/X or email [email protected] with any questions.

Featured in July:

🗓️ Wednesday, July 30th
📍 San Francisco, CA

​​​Come join us for technical talks focusing on AI benchmarks. We're a group of AI engineers, researchers, and academics.

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🗓️ Thursday, July 31st
📍 Remote

​​​Join us for a hands-on walkthrough of Qdrant Cloud Inference, the newest way to embed, store, and search in one place. In this session, you'll learn how to combine inference and vector search into a single pipeline without using external infrastructure.

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🗓️ 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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🗓️ Tuesday, August 5th
📍 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, August 7th
📍 San Francisco, CA

​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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🗓️ 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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This Week in SF:

🗓️ Monday, July 28
📍 San Francisco, CA

Join us for an evening of great food, drinks, and plenty of Julius-style fun as we celebrate what’s next.

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🗓️ Monday, July 28
📍 San Francisco, CA

​Step into the AWS GenAI Loft for a deep‑dive, 200/300‑level workshop where you’ll learn how to architect and build a live, real‑time AI voice agent from the ground up. Our three expert presenters will guide you through every piece of the puzzle—speech in, AI brains, and speech out—so you can walk away with working code and best practices for production.

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🗓️ Thursday, July 31
📍 San Francisco, CA

​​​​​The kickoff event will highlight the NVIDIA tools and systems developers can leverage to build next-generation industrial solutions. We will also announce the hackathon challenges, industry judges, and list of prizes. If you are interested in learning more about the NVIDIA developer ecosystem, connecting with other potential participants, and learning more about key challenges faced in the industry today, we look forward to seeing you at the event!

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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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This Week in NYC:

🗓️ Tuesday, July 29
📍 New York, NY

​​Join us for our July AI Engineering Meetup. This is a monthly series for engineers, researchers, and builders interested in AI development. We explore how foundation models are being integrated into real-world products, what tools and techniques are emerging, and what’s next for the field.

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🗓️ Thursday, July 31 - Friday, August 1
📍 New York, NY

​Calling all NYC engineers, PMs, founders, and hackers building at the edge of healthcare and AI. This is your chance to test that half-built agent idea, ship something scrappy-but-real, and meet like-minded people solving hard problems in regulated spaces. Whether you’re a healthtech veteran or just curious about deploying AI agents where stakes are high, this event is for you. You'll walk away with new ideas, new collaborators, and a deeper understanding of what's possible. Come for the agents, stay for the good people, good food, and good vibes.

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