Cerebral Valley – Week of October 13th 🗓

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October 13, 2025

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Open Jobs

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1) Research Engineer at Financial AI Lab (NYC)

- About:  Founders with previous 9-figure exit • Top investors including Garry Tan and hedge fund founders • Building OpenAI for finance
- Ideal candidate: Experience implementing and reading research papers • Python and Pytorch expertise • Ability to engineer the research lifecycle, including data eng, experimentation, training, and deploying • Experience at academic or commercial labs

2) Forward Deployed 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) AI Engineer at Codegen Automation Company (SF)

- About: Backed by Sequoia & other Tier 1 VCs • Top research & engineering culture at the forefront of software automation • $50M+ funding raised
- Ideal candidate: Experience developing and deploying agentic and LLM-based systems • 2+ years experience building with LLMs • Personal projects demonstrating AI-nativity in engineering • Work at the intersection of AI and product

Events List

A curated list of upcoming AI events (view all events).

Featured in October:

🗓️ Thursday, October 16th
📍 San Francisco, California

Join Together AI for a deep dive into the future of LLMs and autonomous agents! Learn how AI agents think, act, and evolve through two expert talks on building and scaling LLM-powered systems. Connect with developers, researchers, and innovators shaping the next wave of intelligent agents.

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🗓️ Thursdays, October 16th, 30th
📍 Virtual

This 6-part virtual event series will enable startups to effectively build, deploy, and scale Generative AI workloads on AWS using NVIDIA technologies. This comprehensive series combines AWS's cloud infrastructure with NVIDIA's cutting edge platform/full-stack to help startups accelerate their Generative AI journey.

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🗓️ Tuesday, October 21st
📍 San Francisco, California

8 days until PyTorch Conference! Join our pre-conference workshop to boost your edge AI skills 🚀

Join AWS and Qualcomm for an exclusive hands-on workshop focused on deploying PyTorch models to edge devices. Master practical techniques using Amazon SageMaker and Qualcomm AI Hub. Learn model training, compilation, scaling, performance optimization for edge devices, and real-world deployment best practices.

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🗓️ Tuesday, October 21st
📍 San Francisco, CA

Elastic{ON} offers a hands-on experience with Elastic's latest AI capabilities, focusing on search, observability, and security. Attendees will explore Elasticsearch query advancements, incident tracing with AI, and how AI enhances SOC efficiency, and much more. This free event empowers participants to leverage AI in real-world applications.

🗓️ Wednesday, October 22nd
📍 San Francisco, CA

Come join us for technical talks focusing on AI benchmarks. We're a group of AI engineers, researchers, and academics. Get ready for three incredible speakers, including: Mark Saroufim from GPU Mode / Meta, George Cameron from Artificial Analysis, and Daniel Kim from Cerebras.

🗓️ Friday, October 24th
📍 San Francisco, CA & Virtual

48 hours to build the future of gaming with AI: a brand-new AI-powered game, a reinvented classic, or a groundbreaking demo. Teams of max 3, mentors from Supercelland tools from Unity. Prizes include MacBooks, GPUs, and access to Supercell’s AI team.


Join online from anywhere in the world or grab your exclusive seat at Supercell’s office in SF!

🗓️ Sunday, October 26th
📍 Virtual

Join us for a global hackathon focused on simulation, open to all stages with tracks starting from beginner tasks to advanced tracks. A total prize pool of $50k split across various tracks! Thanks to our partners over at AWS Startups, Intel, Coohom, Akash, Berkeley AI Research, Tianji and Rokae.

🗓️ Tuesday, October 28th
📍 Virtual

Join Eric Davis, VP AI at SK Telecom, and Alessandro Cappelli, ML Researcher at Adaptive ML, for a discussion on how SK Telecom used reinforcement learning to tune specialized LLMs for customer support tasks.

🗓️ Tuesday, November 4th
📍 Virtual

​Join thousands of data scientists, engineers, AI practitioners and developers virtually at Snowflake’s BUILD event on November 4th - 6th.

This FREE 3-day virtual event offers you three days of exclusive product announcements, “how to” technical sessions, and hands-on labs focused on Snowflake’s latest innovations.

This Week in SF:

🗓️ Tuesday, October 14th
📍 San Francisco, CA

​In this session, we're doing the first private preview of ngrok's upcoming AI gateway! ​We'd love to have you give early product feedback and raise your hand to become a design partner.

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🗓️ Tuesday, October 14th
📍 San Francisco, CA

​Join us for an n8n Community Meetup in San Francisco, in partnership with Vapi. ​Connect with automation enthusiasts, developers, and builders as we explore powerful use cases, share knowledge, and collaborate on building with n8n.

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🗓️ Wednesday, October 15th
📍 San Francisco, CA

This October, Vapi is bringing together visionary thinkers to explore the most pressing questions reshaping product development today. Bring your toughest questions about AI in design, from tactical implementation to strategic vision.

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This Week in NYC:

🗓️ Wednesday, October 15th
📍 New York, NYC

​Together with Lenses, AWS and Ness Digital Engineering, join us for an action-packed one-day hackathon dedicated to innovation at the intersection of real-time data and AI in finance.

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🗓️ Wednesday, October 15th
📍 New York, NYC

Join us for the October edition of the New York AI Engineers Tech Talk, a monthly gathering focused exclusively on AI engineering. This month’s presenters include: Shashank Goyal, Founding SWE at OpenRouter, Zack Kirby, SWE at Hex, and Paul Lindner, Principal SWE at Metropolis

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🗓️ Thursday, October 16th
📍 New York, NYC

​AI Agent World Tour is hitting the New York City this October and it's exactly where you should be! Expect ​​30+ booths featuring teams that are actually building production grade AI Agents, relevant talks, founders pitch competition, and more.

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