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Cerebral Valley – Week of November 17th 🗓
SF & NYC we're coming with something new; plus read about our Open Roles, and more...


NYC & SF… we’ve got two hackathons in two cities coming for you again 🫵🏻
🌁 Register here for SF’s Hack FLUX: Beyond One, November 22nd to November 23rd & shape the next generation of generative media 👀
🗽 Register here for NYC’s AIE Code Agents Hackathon, November 22nd to November 23rd. Winners get tickets to AI Engineer Europe 🚀
Interested in volunteering at one of our hackathons? Fill out the interest form here 💥
You Might’ve Missed
@NousResearch partners with @hillclimbai to build a model aimed at tackling the world’s hardest math problems ⁉️
Anthropic is going vertical: new data centers in Texas and New York ⚡
Microsoft unveils Fairwater — the world’s first AI superfactory with global routing and a fully fungible compute fleet 🤯
9 AI agents, 150 support tickets, zero common sense; humans still win for now… 🤔
The largest egocentric robotics dataset ever is now open: a thread 🧵
Watch our very own official recap of the Gemini Vibe Code SF Hackathon 👀
Open Jobs
Looking to hire the best talent? Reach out to [email protected] to see how we can help.
1) Full Stack Engineer at AI Documentation Startup (SF)
- About: Backed by A16Z, YC & other Tier 1 VCs • Tech powers over 10,000 companies to date & rapidly growing • $20M+ funding raised with small team
- Ideal candidate: 3+ years experience including consumer or B2B startups • Innate ability to build from 0 to 1 with low ego • Strong full stack engineering ability with high agency • Strong in-person work culture & desire to collaborate heavily with the team
2) 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
3) Full Stack Engineer at Finance Personalization Startup (Remote)
- About: Backed by top investors in finance • $10M+ raised, largest seed round ever for their primary VC • Built by exited founder, previously raised $500M+ for past companies • Building proactive agentic personal finance tools • Incredibly technical team
- Ideal candidate: Strong experience in full stack development & AI engineering • Preferred work history in fintech or finance • 3+ years of professional experience
CV Spotlight: Nebius Token Factory

Teams are moving fast from closed APIs to open LLMs, for control, cost, and speed.
Nebius Token Factory makes them production-ready with dedicated inference, fine-tuning, and distillation pipelines. Sub-second latency. 99.9% uptime. Zero data retention.
Events List
A curated list of upcoming AI events (view all events).
Featured in November:
🗓️ Monday, November 17th — 19th
📍 Oakland, CA
AI By the Bay (11/17–19, Oakland) is a dev‑centric conference. Workshops, talks & hackathon. Reliable Enterprise AI: GenAI infra, RAG, data optimization, PyTorch, Iceberg, lakehouses, agents, evals, observability. 50+ talks, including Google, Anthropic, Anyscale, Snowflake, Pydantic, Stanford. Use CVBTB code for 15 free tickets, CVBTB50 for 50% off.
🗓️ Wednesday, December 3rd
📍 San Diego, CA
Connect with engineers and researchers advancing multimodal AI. Share industry insights, discuss technical challenges, and network with practitioners over drinks and food.
This Week in SF:
🗓️ Tuesday, November 18th
📍 San Francisco, CA
Join us for the first LiveKit Developer Day — a gathering for builders, developers, and partners who are shaping the future of voice AI. This event is an opportunity to connect with the LiveKit team, see what we’ve been working on, and explore how our community is using LiveKit in real-world applications.
Register
🗓️ Wednesday, November 19th
📍 San Francisco, CA
We’re putting together Cursor’s very first Women in AI event! We'll be showcasing Cursor 2.0 — our biggest product launch to date, and inviting guests to demo what they’ve been building. Come connect with other female leaders in the Bay Area.
Register
🗓️ Thursday, November 20th
📍 San Francisco, CA
Join us on November 20th for a hands-on developer meetup exploring Reinforcement Learning (RL) — what it is, how it can help you build smarter products, and how to measure its ROI.
Register
This Week in NYC:
🗓️ Tuesday, November 18th
📍 New York, NYC
The world’s largest conference for spec-centric, AI-native software development. Join developers, founders, and product leaders building the future of engineering with specs, AI coding agents, and next-gen dev tools.
Register
🗓️ Friday, November 21st
📍 New York, NYC
Kick off your evening with the OpenAI coding and startups team at our NYC developer happy hour during the AI Engineering Code Summit. Come hang out, chat about what you’re building, and connect with other engineers and founders pushing the limits of coding agents in 2026.
Register
🗓️ Friday, November 21st
📍 New York, NYC
Join us for an evening of cutting-edge discussion at the intersection of AI and Python, featuring lightning talks from leading practitioners who are building the future of intelligent systems and developer tooling.
Register
Planning an upcoming event? Submit an event to our AI Event Feature.
Final Note…
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