--- title: 'Sales Development Rep - North America (Must be located in India) at CIQ' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/sales-development-rep-north-america-must-be-located-in-india-ciq-remote-e6bksrz5wk03' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-13' --- # Sales Development Rep - North America (Must be located in India) at CIQ - **Company:** CIQ - **Location:** Remote - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-07-24 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-13 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/ciq/jobs/5365253008 ## Job description ## CIQ OVERVIEW CIQ builds the enterprise infrastructure that powers the world's most demanding workloads. From the operating system layer through AI infrastructure, high-performance computing, and cloud-native orchestration, CIQ delivers the speed, security, scalability, and sovereignty that major enterprises, government agencies, and research institutions depend on. CIQ is the founding support and services partner of Rocky Linux and the developer of the RLC Pro family of Enterprise Linux distributions, Fuzzball workload orchestration, Warewulf Pro cluster provisioning, and Ascender Pro automation. Our customers include some of the largest and most technically sophisticated organizations in the world, working across HPC, AI/ML, defense, and regulated industries. We are a company of builders, operators, and open source practitioners. If you want to do work that matters, at a company that is genuinely changing how enterprise infrastructure gets built and run, we want to talk. ## POSITION SUMMARY Must be located in India CIQ is looking for a Sales Development Representative (SDR) to qualify inbound interest, spark net-new conversations, and set the meetings that build pipeline for our sales organization. This is a launchpad role for someone who wants to grow into an Account Executive seat and is willing to out-work, out-learn, and out-curious the field to get there. You’ll be the first human a prospect meets at CIQ. You’ll reach people who’ve engaged with our content or who fit our ideal customer profile - platform engineers, HPC and AI infrastructure leaders, and the executives who own their compute strategy - through calls, email, LinkedIn, and social. Your job is to understand what they’re trying to build, figure out where CIQ fits, and hand off a qualified, well-briefed opportunity to our Sales and Solutions Architect teams. We sell technical infrastructure to a technical audience in a market that moves every quarter. You don’t need to be an engineer, but you do need to be genuinely curious about the technology, quick to learn, and comfortable being a little uncomfortable while you get up to speed. The best SDRs here treat learning the space as part of the job, not homework. - Follow up fast on a high volume of inbound leads by phone, email, and LinkedIn to move prospects further into CIQ’s sales process. - Run multi-channel outbound campaigns to net-new accounts - researched, personalized, and persistent - to generate qualified meetings and opportunities for the sales team. - Research accounts and contacts, build a point of view on their infrastructure challenges, and open conversations through sharp discovery calls and email sequences. - Use active listening to uncover real business problems - cost, vendor lock-in, security and compliance, AI/HPC performance - and connect them to how CIQ can help. - Learn CIQ’s products and the wider Linux, HPC, and AI infrastructure landscape well enough to hold a credible early conversation, and keep learning as the market shifts. - Consistently hit activity and outcome targets across calls, emails, LinkedIn touches, and meetings booked, in service of monthly and quarterly quotas. - Keep your pipeline clean and your data accurate in HubSpot and your sales engagement tooling; use AI and prospecting tools to work smarter, not just harder. - Collaborate closely with Account Executives, Solutions Architects, and Marketing to sharpen messaging, improve handoffs, and drive deals forward. ## NEEDED TO SUCCEED Successful candidates will have: - Highly motivated and resilient - you set your own pace, chase the goal, and bounce back quickly from a “no.” - Curious about technology and eager to learn - you find it interesting (not intimidating) to figure out what CIQ builds and why it matters. - Adaptable - comfortable with change, new tools, and shifting priorities in an evolving tech and product landscape. - A strong communicator - clear, confident, and human on the phone, over email, and on LinkedIn. - Organized and self-directed - excellent time management, attention to detail, and the discipline to follow a process. - A great teammate - friendly, humble, honest, collaborative, and always striving to be better -  who can thrive independently in a remote team. ## EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE - Bachelor’s degree in a related field, or equivalent work experience as an SDR/BDR or in a comparable role. - Nice to have: prior sales, customer-facing, or startup experience; exposure to HubSpot or a sales engagement platform; interest in Linux, open source, cloud, HPC, or AI infrastructure. None of these are required if you bring the drive and the ability to learn ## BENEFITS - Medical, dental, and vision insurance. - Flexible paid time off. - Employee stock options. - Remote work; no travel required for most positions. ## About CIQ ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: CIQ provides enterprise-grade, FIPS-validated software infrastructure for AI, HPC, and regulated environments, built around Rocky Linux and open-source orchestration tools. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series A; raised $26M total funding) - **Headquarters**: Reno, Nevada, USA - **Founded**: 2020 - **Founders**: Gregory Kurtzer (CEO) ## Core Business - **Primary industry/industries**: Enterprise infrastructure software, AI/HPC orchestration, Linux and open-source support. - **Target customers**: Large enterprises, research institutions, and government agencies requiring secure, compliant, and scalable Linux-based infrastructure. B2B, Enterprise. - **Mission or purpose statement**: “Simplify and unify software infrastructure, enabling you to craft groundbreaking technologies for the generations to come.” [ciq.com](https://ciq.com/company/about) ## Products & Services - **RLC Pro (Rocky Linux Commercial Pro)**: The commercial, enterprise-grade binary-compatible Linux distribution based on Rocky Linux. Includes LTS, FIPS 140-3 validated cryptography, and CAVP-certified post-quantum algorithms. Tiered versions include RLC Pro Hardened (for CMMC, CNSA 2.0) and RLC Pro AI (pre-integrated with NVIDIA CUDA/DOCA and AMD ROCm). - **Fuzzball**: A high-performance orchestration platform for AI and HPC workloads across on-premises and multi-cloud environments. - **Warewulf Pro**: Stateless cluster provisioning at scale, ensuring every node boots from a known state. - **Ascender Pro**: An open, enterprise-grade IT automation platform for managing complex workflows across the entire stack. - **Enterprise Support & Consulting**: Direct access to Linux and HPC engineers for production support, custom training, and hands-on consulting. - **Training**: Customized training on Linux, IT automation, HPC, and AI infrastructure, available in-person or virtually. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed. - **Key Metric**: Total funding of $26M (Series A). Reported 2.75M+ Rocky Linux instances and 250k average monthly downloads. [ciq.com](https://ciq.com/) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Key partners include NVIDIA and AMD (pre-integrated GPU stacks). Investors not fully detailed on public site. - **Growth Signals**: 90% of Fortune 100 companies are reported users. Headcount growth trends show +66.7% yearly increase in job postings. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/ctrliq) Amazon Linux 2 end-of-life (June 2026) provides a significant market migration opportunity to Rocky Linux. ## Competitive Advantages - **Rocky Linux Ownership**: As the founding commercial support and services partner of Rocky Linux, CIQ has direct influence and deep expertise in the most popular CentOS replacement. - **Full-Stack Integration**: Pre-validated NVIDIA and AMD GPU stacks (CUDA, DOCA, ROCm) eliminate driver matching and kernel conflicts, offering a ready-to-run AI infrastructure. - **Compliance and Security**: FIPS 140-3, CAVP, and CMMC certifications make CIQ a go-to for regulated industries and government contracts. - **Open-Source Core**: Built on open-source communities (Rocky Linux, Warewulf, Fuzzball), ensuring transparency and community innovation while providing enterprise-grade support. ## Strategic Focus - **AI Infrastructure**: Optimizing the OS and orchestration layers specifically for GPU-accelerated AI workloads, targeting the growing enterprise AI market. - **Regulated Environments**: Deepening compliance capabilities (CNSA 2.0, CMMC) to serve federal and defense sectors. - **Migration from Amazon Linux 2**: Capitalizing on the June 2026 end-of-life deadline to attract AWS-native enterprises seeking a stable, compliant alternative. - **Open-Source Ecosystem**: Continuing to invest in and lead the Rocky Linux and related open-source communities to drive adoption and innovation. ## Why Work Here - **100% Remote**: Full remote flexibility is a core offering. [ciq.com](https://ciq.com/company/careers) - **Culture of Ownership**: Emphasis on accountability, “startup mode” efficiency, and a “customer first” philosophy. - **Work with Industry Pioneers**: Collaborate with the creator of Rocky Linux and other open-source and HPC veterans. - **Comprehensive Benefits**: Healthcare, vision, dental, flexible PTO, and growth opportunities. - **Open and Humble Environment**: Culture built on mutual respect, diversity, and constructive feedback, with a “no-drama” policy. ## Sources 1. [ciq.com](https://ciq.com/) 2. [ciq.com - About](https://ciq.com/company/about) 3. [ciq.com - Careers](https://ciq.com/company/careers) 4. [ciq.com - Leadership](https://ciq.com/company/leadership) 5. 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