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Cerebral Valley – Week of September 29th 🗓
Join us for LATW: The Finale, Executorch & Google Gemini Hackathons, Open Roles and more...
In LA? Join us for The Finale — our after-event for a16z's LA Tech Week. Taking place October 16th @ Delilah LA. RSVP here & spread the word 👀
SF, we didn’t forget you 🌉
October 18th — Register here for our Google Gemini hackathon for TedAI Week San Francisco ✨
October 20th — Register here for our 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) 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
2) 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) Frontend 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: Able to innovate and develop novel human-AI interaction • 4+ years experience building scalable consumer web and native applications • Familiar with Typescript, React, Next & the likes • Native intuition for user interfaces and AI usage
CV Spotlight: Pytorch Conference 2025
Join us at PyTorch Conference 2025, October 22-23 in San Francisco!
PyTorch Conference is the premier forum for AI innovation. Join 2,500+ AI engineers and researchers for 6 technical tracks, 3 co-located summits, training & certification, a Startup Showcase, poster sessions + MORE. Whether you’re scaling a startup or advancing the state of AI, PyTorch Conference is your gateway to the people, tools, and insights driving the next era of innovation.
Save 50% off your attendee pass with code VALLEY. Register today!
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.
Events List
A curated list of upcoming AI events (view all events).
Featured in September:
🗓️ 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.
Register
🗓️ Tuesday, September 16th — Wednesday, October 1st
📍 Virtual
Join the Modern Stack Hackathon and compete for $25k in cash and prizes. Build a full-stack app, AI agents, or voice apps with Convex, Firecrawl, Vapi, Better-Auth, Autumn, Resend, Inkeep, Scorecard, and OpenAI.
Register
🗓️ Tuesday, September 30th
📍 San Francisco, CA
We've joined forces with powerhouse innovators: AWS, Mistral AI, MongoDB, Arize AI, and LaunchDarkly to gather the brightest minds in AI at AWS Builder Loft, for an evening of deep dive tech talks, live demos, and networking with 200+ AI developers, builders and tech leaders over dinner and expo booths.
Register
🗓️ Wednesday, October 1st
📍 San Francisco, CA
Fireworks AI presents Own Your AI, an evening featuring Uber, Meta, Upwork, and AWS at the Builder Loft in San Francisco on October 1st. Learn how leaders leverage open-source AI to customize, scale & future-proof strategies.
Register
🗓️ Thursday, October 2nd
📍 San Francisco, CA
VapiCon is a voice AI summit tailored for developers. Join us on October 2, 2025, in San Francisco for a one-day event bringing together engineers, developers, and industry leaders to explore innovations and the future of voice AI.
Learn about building, deploying, and scaling voice AI agents, explore modern architectural designs, and discuss where the voice AI industry is headed. The event features talks from experts, including voices from Top Research Labs, Vapi, Deepgram, Assembly, Coval, Krisp, Ultravox, Rime Labs, and others.
🗓️ Thursday, October 9th
📍 New York City, NY
Solving tough challenges in search, security, or observability? Looking to sharpen your skills or stay ahead of what’s next?
Whether you’re a developer, engineer, or architect (or you just love working with Elastic) you’ll find your place at Elastic{ON}. Join this single-day, no-cost event where you'll get early access to new features, explore technical deep dives, and go hands-on with the latest Elastic innovations. You’ll connect with peers, swap real-world lessons, and shape what’s next — together, in person.
🗓️ Thursday, October 9th
📍 New York City, NY & Virtual
Looking for insights into the future of tech, AI, and customer service? Then Pioneer is the summit for you, with a special guest keynote delivered by renowned entrepreneur, investor, and media executive, Gary Vaynerchuk. You won’t want to miss this.
At Pioneer, you’ll learn how teams are adopting AI-first strategies to deliver incredible experiences for their customers.
Join Pioneer in-person in NYC or online from anywhere on October 9th, 2025.
🗓️ 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.
🗓️ 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, September 30th
📍 San Francisco, CA
Discuss the future of Messaging in an AI first world and how AI native email clients, voice operating systems, and others are changing what it means to "message" and communicate with one another and AI.
Register
🗓️ Wednesday, October 1st
📍 San Francisco, CA
In just a few hours, builders will team up to prototype marketplace agents — autonomous systems that can buy, sell, and negotiate in real time using LiquidMetal’s Raindrop platform and Vercel’s V0.
Register
🗓️ Saturday, October 4th
📍 San Francisco, CA
Join the Supabase team the day after Supabase Select for an all-day hackathon with great prizes, great food, and a great vibe.
Register
This Week in NYC:
🗓️ Thursday, October 2nd
📍 New York, NYC
For anyone curious about building with Cursor, vibe-coders, and power-users. Join us for show-and-tell demos, live tips exchange & workflows, free swag & food, and a surprise speaker!
Register
🗓️ Friday, October 3rd
📍 New York, NYC
Hosted by Andreessen Horowitz, Stripe, Cursor, Harmonic, and ElevenLabs, this rooftop happy hour offers a relaxed yet high-signal environment to connect with fellow entrepreneurs, technical leaders, and early-stage investors building in the AI space.
Register
🗓️ Saturday, October 4th
📍 New York, NYC
Join us to build cutting-edge AI agents that push the limits of LLMs and AI applications! We're bringing together NYC's best AI engineers, founders and startups for a 1-day hackathon to build projects at the edge of what's possible with AI.
Register
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