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Cerebral Valley – Week of March 30th 🗓
Catch our recap from Gemini 3 Paris, plus the latest AI events, news and open roles...
Recap Gemini 3 Paris - our first Paris hackathon of 2026 with Google DeepMind!
You Might’ve Missed
OpenAI is hiring SLAM engineers — @danfei_xu (NVIDIA robotics researcher, Georgia Tech professor) reacts to OpenAI posting a SLAM engineer role. SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) is a core robotics technique — a strong signal that OpenAI is making a serious move into embodied AI.
Zero physical prototype to working product in 6 days — @chloe_h_nguyen documents her speed run going from zero prototype to a working product at @mergedotclub in just 6 days, sharing the full timeline.
Coastal cities are sinking faster than the ocean is rising — @neevefrat on the underreported fact that subsidence beneath coastal cities is outpacing sea level rise, with a video breakdown featuring @laurence1allen.
Shaun Maguire: "xAI will win" — Sequoia's @shaunmmaguire published a massive long-form article arguing xAI is being underestimated. Covers Elon's AI history from AlexNet to OpenAI's founding, Colossus compute buildout, Starlink cash flow funding AI, space compute, Terafab, and Optimus.
Robotics is getting its Raspberry Pi moment — @IlirAliu_ spotlights Norma, an open-source robotics platform (normacore.dev) that aims to lower the barrier to building physical AI the way Raspberry Pi did for computing.
Joe Gebbia: Hiring builders to serve the USA — @jgebbia (Airbnb co-founder, USDS) is recruiting via EarlyCareers.gov — looking for builders who want to bring tech talent into government.
Open Jobs
Looking to hire the best talent? Reach out to [email protected] for job placement inquiries.
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
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
AI Engineer at Open-Source Web Company (NYC)
- Building: Open source web tools powering hundreds of millions of websites
- About: Series E company dedicated to an open web • Built foundational internet software including Wordpress & Jetpack • $800m+ raised • Now building out AI team
- Ideal candidate: Demonstrated knowledge building production AI systems with LLMs & agents • Experience in Typescript and Agents • Passion for open-source software and consumer products • Quick to adapt to new tools & development stack
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 March:
🗓️ Wednesday, April 15th
📍 Virtual (Free)
Seven and a half hours of live technical sessions and hands-on learning dedicated to the future of AI with knowledge graphs. Three tracks: Knowledge Graphs & GraphRAG, Graph Memory & Agents, and Graph + AI in Production. AI engineers will explore the latest techniques for context engineering, agentic systems, evals, MCP, and working with the latest models.
🗓️ April 18 at 9:00 AM - April 19 at 5:00 PM
📍 San Francisco, California
Seven and a half hours of live technical sessions and hands-on learning dedicated to the future of AI with knowledge graphs. Three tracks: Knowledge Graphs & GraphRAG, Graph Memory & Agents, and Graph + AI in Production. AI engineers will explore the latest techniques for context engineering, agentic systems, evals, MCP, and working with the latest models.
This Week in SF:
🗓️ Thursday, April 2nd
📍 Mission Rock, San Francisco
Fireworks AI, Exa, and Vercel team up for an evening of technical talks, demos, and networking. See how modern AI apps are actually built across the stack — fast inference (Fireworks), search APIs (Exa), and AI SDK infrastructure (Vercel). Live demo of a combined use case across all three platforms, plus a panel on "The Future of Software: Building for AI, Not Just Humans" with execs from all three companies. Spots limited, approval only.
🗓️ Wednesday, April 1st
📍 Stanford University
A curated forum for rigorous discussion on how AI is reshaping scientific research. Each session features 2–3 papers selected for rigor and discussion value, with brief presentations and deep Q&A on assumptions, evaluation methodology, and failure modes. Speakers include Mo Tiwari (MTS at OpenAI, Stanford CS PhD advised by Sebastian Thrun and Chris Piech). Hosted by Emily (an AI scientist for closed-loop experimentation), Frontier Syndicate, and Stanford BASES. Capacity limited.
🗓️ Thursday, April 9th
📍 Pacific Heights, San Francisco, CA
The most ambitious founders showcase a month's worth of work at Lightyear's Demo Day. Incubated by HF0, the residency brings founders building at the boundaries of AI, robotics, neuroscience, and finance. 40% of teams broke $2M annualized revenue, one hit $10M ARR. One founder built a SOTA foundation model beating NVIDIA benchmarks. Doors at 4pm, demos at 4:30, founder meet & greet at 5.
This Week in NYC:
🗓️ Wednesday, April 1st
📍 New York, NY
If 2024 was the year of foundation models and 2025 was the year of chips, 2026 is shaping up to be the year of the graph. A closed-door panel on graph-native AI architectures with Kirk McKeown (CEO, Carbon Arc; former Head of Prop Research at Point72), Jayeeta Putatunda (Director of AI, Fitch Ratings), Drew Das (Staff AI Engineer, Sixfold), and Catherine Lee (ML Software Engineer, Amazon). Curated attendance, approval required.
🗓️ Friday, April 3rd
📍 New York, NY (venue shared upon RSVP)
Four hours of focused building time to design, build, and ship autonomous AI agents that solve real problems. Demo your project to a judging panel of CTOs and CEOs from AI-native companies (Jack and Jill, Discernis, Astute). Top builder wins a Mac Mini. Sponsored by ERA NYC. Solo participants and teams welcome. Pizza, drinks, and good company.
🗓️ Saturday, April 4th
📍 Kings County, New York
What happens when Lightning AI's frontier training infrastructure meets Validia's safety & security expertise?
A hackathon where you build smarter, ship faster, and deploy agents in a secure manner.
We're excited to host a hackathon right here in New York City, where we'll challenge you and your team to build autonomous agents that work the way you work - faster than ever before.
Planning an upcoming event? Submit an event to our AI Event Feature.
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