What we’re about
Portland AI Engineers is a community of software developers at all experience levels exploring the frontiers of generative AI through hands-on experimentation. We're builders who leverage cutting-edge models—from frontier APIs to on-device, LLMs to multimodal—to create practical applications ranging from personal hobby projects to enterprise-scale solutions. Join us to share discoveries, compare approaches, and push the boundaries of what's possible in this rapidly evolving field.
What is an AI Engineer? An AI Engineer is a software developer who integrates existing language model capabilities into products that solve real-world problems. We are not pre-training models or delving deep into data science—we're focused on applying our foundational software development skills to harness generative AI and its surrounding tools ecosystem to build scalable, user-centric applications.
"In numbers, there's probably going to be significantly more AI Engineers than there are ML engineers / LLM engineers. One can be quite successful in this role without ever training anything."
— Andrej Karpathy, Formerly OpenAI, Tesla
Sponsors
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- OReillySharing the knowledge of experts and innovators. Visit oreilly.com
- PIE Portland Incubator ExperimentFrontier Sponsor
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Upcoming events (1)
See all- Portland AI Engineers September MeetingInstrument, Portland, OR, OR
Featured presentations
[1 of 2] Overview of Intrument
Presenter: John Brown
John Brown, VP of technology at Instrument will give a quick overview of the company.[2 of 2] AI Tooling and Approaches
Presenter: Rob Story, ML Inference Researcher and Software Engineer, Netflix
Drawing on experience at Stripe and Netflix, two organizations with sprawling, polyglot ML and service codebases, this talk shares practical and effective approaches for using AI day to day. I’ll cover my evolution from using simple chat assistants, to copilots, to lightweight agents across multiple model families. I’ll also weave in workflows and tips from friends and colleagues who’ve worked at Twitter, Lyft, Meta, Indeed, and Anthropic, and how it's changing how they design and build software for the future.Schedule:
- 5:00 - 5:30: Snacks and networking
- 5:30 - 7:00: Presentations
- 7:00 - 7:30: Wrap up and networking
Get involved:
- Present your work: Email us at info@portlandai.engineer to discuss sharing your project or insights
- Provide feedback: Help shape our community by sharing your ideas and suggestions
- Sponsor an event: Contact us to discuss partnership opportunities
For more information and to join our community, visit portlandai.engineer
Thank you to our amazing sponsors
Portland Incubator Experiment (PIE)
Silicon Florist
AlteredCraft
