Sales Development Representative

Neuron Industries (YC S26); Gardena (CA); On-site; USD 60,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Paid vacation

Free catered meals

Job summary

Neuron Industries is an industrial technology company focused on rebuilding automation for the AI era, with a mission to shorten cycles from weeks to hours. We seek someone who can identify hard-tech factories, reach controls engineers and plant managers, and book high-quality meetings that convert.

You will run daily outbound across email, LinkedIn, and phone, while maintaining CRM integrity and following up on every lead. Expect 25% travel and a fast-paced, human-centric approach to outreach.

Qualifications

• Evidence of grit with a scoreboard: sports, service, a side business, door-to-door, etc.
• You write short, sharp, and human emails that show you did your homework.
• Phone and doorstep courage for factory visits and cold outreach.
• Curiosity about how things get made and talking shop with controls engineers.
• Organized to a fault with consistent follow-ups and up-to-date notes.
• AI-forward: use AI to research and draft, avoid robotic emails.

Responsibilities

• Build the target list with ICP screening: hard-tech factories, process plants, machine builders.
• Run personalized outbound daily via email, LinkedIn, and phone; avoid bot-like messages.
• Travel about 25%: in-person meetings at industrial parks, pre-booked demos, follow-ups.
• Qualify inbound/outbound leads: focus on real pain, authority, and timeline.
• Book and prep founders' meetings; maintain CRM accuracy and pipeline numbers.
• Draft messaging with AI, then apply personal touch before automation.

Skills

Grit

Concise writing

Phone outreach

Curiosity about manufacturing

Organization

AI-enabled

Research and drafting

Tools

CRM

LinkedIn

Email

Job description

But we cannot manufacture our abundant future while the reactors, fabs, and production lines that make everything we use still run on architecture locked in the 90s.

Neuron Industries is the industrial technology company for the AI era. We are rebuilding the entire industrial automation tech stack, from hardware to runtime to the AI fabric, without sacrificing a minute of uptime. Controls projects that took weeks now take hours.

Come help us build the golden age of American manufacturing.

The role

Find the hard-tech companies that fit, reach the controls engineer or plant manager who feels the pain, and book them into a meeting they're glad they took.

What you'll do

• Build the target list with our ICP screen: hard-tech factories, process plants, machine builders. Quality in, quality out.
• Run personalized outbound every day: email, LinkedIn, phone, and the occasional trade-show floor. Volume matters but nothing goes out that reads like a bot.
• Hit the road about 25% of the time: door-to-door pitching at industrial parks and machine shops, first-pass demos on the prospect's floor, and conferences with us, pre-booked meetings, same-day follow-up.
• Qualify inbound and outbound alike: real pain, real authority, real timeline. Remove bad fits fast.
• Book and prep the founders' meetings, and keep the CRM honest: a tight brief before every call, every touch logged, every follow-up on time, pipeline numbers the founders can trust.
• Run an AI-first desk with judgment: agents draft your research and first passes, you do the thinking and the personal touch. We dial in messaging by hand before we automate anything.

What you'll bring

• Evidence of grit with a scoreboard: sports, service, a side business, door-to-door, anything where you kept score and kept going. This job is taking a hundred no's to find the yes.
• You write short, sharp, and human. Your cold email sounds like a person who did their homework, because you did.
• Phone and doorstep courage. You'll cold call and cold walk into machine shops and rocket factories, and a no doesn't dent you.
• Genuine curiosity about how things get made. You'll learn to talk shop with controls engineers, and you'll like it.
• Organized to a fault, and coachable: follow-ups never drop, notes are current, you know exactly where every prospect stands, and you want the weekly call-and-email review rather than dreading it.
• AI-forward: you already use AI to research and draft faster, and you know an automated-sounding email is worse than no email.

Nice to have

• Prior SDR or BDR time, especially for technical or industrial products.
• You've seen a shop floor: family business, trade, internship, or a job that got your hands dirty.
• You've sold something before. Retail, fundraising, and door-to-door all count.

Compensation

$60,000–$85,000 base, with $85,000–$120,000 on-target earnings including commission, plus equity. The range is wide on purpose: base tracks experience, and the upside tracks the meetings you book.

• 100% employer-paid Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance (premium PPO and HMO options)
• Paid vacation, sick leave, and company holidays
• Free daily catered lunch and dinner

Neuron Industries is an equal opportunity employer: we hire on ability, hunger, and what you can build. And if this role excites you but your experience doesn't line up perfectly with every bullet above, the bullets describe the work, not the prerequisite for success.

Location:

Gardena, CA, on-site, with about 25% travel.