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Cerebral Valley – Week of September 22nd 🗓

Cerebral Valley – Week of September 22nd 🗓

Announcing the official GPT-5 Startup Hackathon NYC, Executorch Hackathon, Open Roles and more...

September 22, 2025

CV • X • IG • AI Events

NYC, it’s finally your turn 🌆 The official GPT-5 Startup Hackathon lands September 27th in the city that never sleeps — register here ⭐
In LA? Announcing LATW: The Finale — our official closing party for a16z's LA Tech Week. Taking place October 16th in LA. RSVP here for early approval 👀
SF, we’ve got something for you too 🌉 Register here for our October 20th Build the Future of Edge AI hackathon, with Meta, Qualcomm & GitHub 🚀

Launching, Hiring or Recruiting in Q4? Reach out to explore a collab 💥

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Open Jobs

Looking to hire the best talent? Reach out to [email protected] to see how we can help.

1) Full Stack 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: 3+ years experience building in AI, crypto, or finance • Alum from Stripe, Ramp, Plaid, or other fintech unicorns • Experience in Python / Go backend + React / Next frontend • Fit in with research-driven culture and bridge the gap

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 • $20M+ 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

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

CV Spotlight: Pytorch Conference 2025

Don’t miss PyTorch Conference 2025, October 22-23 in San Francisco!

Join 2,500+ AI engineers and researchers for 6 technical tracks, 3 co-located summits, training + certification, a Startup Showcase, poster sessions, and MORE. Learn, connect, and help shape the next wave of AI innovation in the world’s leading open source ecosystem.

Save 25% off your attendee pass with code VALLEY. Register today!

CV Spotlight: Agentic Memory and Context Engineering Hackathon #SFTechWeek

For this #SFTechWeek, MongoDB will be hosting a fully in-person event bringing together developers, researchers, and AI leaders to challenge and explore the future of context-aware agents.

Taking place at Shack15, a panel of industry-leading judges will push your thinking on how AI agents capture, store, retrieve, and reuse information for smarter, more adaptive behavior. Builders will get hands-on with MongoDB Atlas Vector Search and Voyage AI embeddings, working alongside top talent to prototype the next generation of agentic applications.

Register here

Events List

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

Featured in September:

Accelerate Your GenAI Journey on AWS with NVIDIA - An Enablement Series

🗓️ Thursdays, September 4th, 18th; October 2nd, 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.