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AI Engineer Code Summit

Hands-on AI engineers from labs and AI-native startups; attendance is curated.

Dates
Nov 10 to Nov 12, 2026
Where
San Francisco, CA
Cost
Apply to attend. Attendance by application (free to apply). Regular $1,299 now, final/at-door $1,499 for talks and expo Nov 11-12; workshop add-on $299 (Nov 10).
Type
Conference · Apply to attend
Organizer
AI Engineer
Last checked
October 23, 2026 against the event’s own site

Official site and registration

Speaking opportunities

Open call for speakers

Call for Speakers closed; final decisions late October 2026.

  • Call for speakers

    Call for speakers

    Call for Speakers closed; final decisions late October 2026.

The field it serves: Technology & Software

Verified open jobs
about 89,532

Source: NextChapter job data, jobs verified live in the last 7 days.

Typical posted salary
$184,000 a year (middle half $131,000 to $234,000)

Source: NextChapter job data: salary ranges employers posted, midpoint of each range, 2,228 of the newest 5,000 verified open jobs.

Entry or early-career level
24% of openings

Source: NextChapter job data: level read from the full posting, newest 5,000 verified open jobs.

Employment, year over year
−4.2% in information, the closest BLS sector

Source: BLS Current Employment Statistics, seasonally adjusted payroll employment, September 2026.

Full Technology & Software snapshot: jobs, pay, layoffs and conferences

Employers at this conference

Exhibitors, sponsors and speakers we have found on the event’s own lists.

Read from the event’s own pages: www.ai.engineer.

Speakers and sessions

Named on the event’s own program. Titles and organizations are as the event lists them.

Keynotes

  • Dexter Horthy

    Co-Founder, HumanLayer

  • Diogo Almeida

    Co-founder & CEO, TypeSafe AI

    System One Models

  • Fabian Hedin

    Co-founder, Lovable

  • Jarred Sumner

    Member of Technical Staff (Manager), Anthropic

    Rewrites

  • Lydia Hallie

    Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic

  • Melvin Johnson

    VP, Gemini Post-Training Lead, Google DeepMind

    Scaling without Slop

  • Michelle Chen

    Group Product Manager, Cloudflare

  • Zach Bruggeman

    Ramp

  • Zach Lloyd

    Founder & CEO, Warp

Speakers

  • Aamir Shakir

    CEO, Mixedbread

  • Ankit Jain

    Co-founder & CEO, Aviator

  • George Fraser

    CEO, Fivetran

  • Jeffrey Pinner

    CTO, Exa

  • Joe Spisak

    VP of Product & Head of Open Source, Reflection AI

  • Karan Vaidya

    Co-founder/CTO, Composio

  • Kush Agrawal

    Staff Software Engineer, Platform, Duolingo

  • Lukas Frei

    Tech Lead, Forward Deployed Engineering, OpenAI

  • Luke Alvoeiro

    Senior Software Engineer, Factory

  • Mihail Eric

    Head of AI, Monaco

  • Owen Kephart

    Member of Technical Staff, Vercel

  • Philip Kiely

    Author of Inference Engineering, Baseten

  • Philipp Schmid

    AI Developer Experience, Google DeepMind

  • Prasanna Sankar

    Co-Founder, Vorflux

  • Utkarsh Shrivastava

    Senior Engineering Manager, Netflix

  • Walden Yan

    Chief Product Officer, Cognition

Read from the event’s own pages: ai.engineer

Industries and functions

Where it is and who it is for

Held in San Francisco, CA. Local jobs, employers, layoffs and other conferences nearby are on the place pages.

Past and planned editions

  • 2026: November 10, 2026 to November 12, 2026, San Francisco, CA

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