Culture

Meet the people behind the work

CIQ is a product-led technology company built on the belief that when the infrastructure layer is genuinely handled, the organizations that depend on it get to focus on what they actually exist to do. Security, speed, sovereignty, and scale belong to CIQ so that innovation belongs to you.

The People

Beyond the job description

CIQ is a company full of people with deep interests and talents that reach well beyond any job description.

Creative talent you can see

The visual identity of CIQ is a direct reflection of our internal talent. The same discerning eye capable of capturing a perfect frame is also applied to the rigorous demands of our product specifications.

World-class discipline

People on this team come from a place where performance is public and standards are unambiguous. That discipline shows up in how someone approaches a customer situation under pressure, in the quality that holds when the stakes are highest.

Whole lives, whole people

The people here carry varied experiences, commitments, and perspectives that deepen the judgment they bring to every problem. CIQ is stronger because of the full lives its people lead, not in spite of them.

True leaders

CIQ has people who have built things from nothing, made hard calls, and invested seriously in the careers of the people around them. Their presence shapes the culture in ways no framework document can fully capture.

We celebrate each other

When something ships ahead of the timeline, the team knows about it. The wins belong to everyone, and CIQ treats them that way.

The CODE² Framework

The standard we hold ourselves to

The standard every person at CIQ holds themselves to: across every function, every product, every day.

Customer-Centric

Every function asks the same first question: Does this make life better for the organizations that depend on us? Product sets the roadmap around it. Support closes tickets against it. Sales recommends solutions by it.

Optimistic

Hard problems get met with the belief that a better solution exists. That posture runs through engineering, product, customer success, and every team in between, including the ones nobody sees.

Dedicated

Collective outcomes are personal. There is no hand-off point where accountability disappears. The people who build the products are the same ones who care whether those products succeed in production.

Efficient

CIQ runs what it ships and integrates AI tools across every team. The goal is always to resolve the problem, whether a customer's or the company's own, before it becomes a disruption.

E²

Excellent

Integrity means saying what you mean and doing what you say, every time. Every output gets reviewed, so the next one is sharper. The standard applies equally to a kernel patch, a renewal conversation, a job description, and a board presentation.

Who We Serve

The people who keep enterprise technology running

Systems AdministratorsDevOps EngineersDevSecOps EngineersPlatform EngineersAI Infrastructure ArchitectsML EngineersAI/HPC Research ComputingHPC ArchitectsIT DirectorsVP of ITCISOCIO

The Portfolio

Purpose-built for AI, HPC, and Enterprise Linux

RLC Pro

Enterprise Linux with long-term support, FIPS 140-3 compliance, and direct bug fixes as standard. The secure, stable OS foundation for AI training, inference, and mission-critical production workloads.

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Fuzzball

HPC and AI workload orchestration across on-premise, cloud, and hybrid environments. Built for research institutions, federal agencies, and the organizations pushing the boundaries of the most demanding workloads.

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Ascender Pro

Enterprise automation for complex AI and HPC infrastructure. Orchestrate, manage, and scale deployments without the operational overhead that slows teams down.

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Warewulf Pro

Bare-metal provisioning built for the speed and scale that AI and HPC clusters demand. Fast, reliable, hardware-agnostic, and built for environments where the hardware layer is still where everything begins.

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What We Provide

Four things that make innovation possible

Security

Vulnerabilities addressed before customers have to ask. FIPS 140-3 built in. Proactive posture so security teams build strategy, not fight fires.

Speed

Faster AI training, higher inference throughput, and HPC workloads that run at the performance the hardware is actually capable of. Patches, guidance, and context in hours, not days, so nothing is waiting on the infrastructure layer.

Sovereignty

The platform belongs to the customer, fully. Own your data, own your compute, with no vendor controlling your roadmap, your access, or your infrastructure decisions.

Scale

The same standard across every customer, from a handful of nodes to the HPC and AI clusters pushing the edge of what is possible.

What People Say

In their own words

"Equipping our researchers with the computing resources they need to do their best work is paramount to furthering our institutional mission. We needed help improving the efficiency of our research cluster so that our researchers had a reliable, secure, high-performance infrastructure they could count on. The CIQ team helped us map out a game plan to make it happen, faster than we'd imagined possible and with a sharp eye on project management."
Zach Rossmiller
CIO, University of Montana

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