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# Director of Finance at UnitX

- **Company:** UnitX
- **Location:** Milpitas, CA / HQ
- **Compensation:** $220k–$280k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-11-04
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-05
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/unitxlabs/0b05dd72-bea6-4073-b558-b055ef539f00

## Job description

## About UnitX

UnitX is building the AI-powered eyes and brain for autonomous manufacturing. Our machine-vision platform helps manufacturers detect complex defects, automate inspection, and improve production quality in applications where conventional vision systems fall short. We are expanding into emerging, high-growth markets—including AI data-center infrastructure and next-generation AI hardware—and are looking for a business development leader to help establish UnitX as a strategic partner to the companies defining these industries.

## The Role

Location: Milpitas, CA We are looking for a hands-on Head of Finance / Director of Finance(based on the experience) to own the finance function end to end. Reporting directly to the CEO, you will lead accounting and consolidated financial reporting, FP&A, treasury, controls, tax and compliance coordination, and strategic finance. You will work closely with leaders across sales, operations, supply chain, and international teams to translate financial data into decisions and build scalable processes for a rapidly growing global company.

## What You’ll Do

- Own the monthly, quarterly, and annual close process and deliver accurate, timely consolidated financial statements across global legal entities.
- Lead multi-entity consolidation, including intercompany accounting and eliminations, foreign-currency translation, and coordination with local accounting teams and external providers.
- Own the integrity of the P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow statement, with clear reconciliations, controls, and management reporting.
- Prepare Board and investor reporting, support financing and diligence processes, and serve as a credible finance representative to investors, banks, auditors, vendors, and other external stakeholders.
- Lead the accounting function and uplevel the processes, team, and systems required to support growth, audit readiness, and increasing organizational complexity.
- Develop and maintain the company's operating model, annual budget, rolling forecast, long-range plan, and scenario analyses to support strategic decision-making.
- Define and manage company-level financial KPIs and unit economics across departments, geographies, customers, and products; build reporting packages that drive accountability and performance.
- Partner with sales leaders on go-to-market planning, bookings and revenue forecasting, pricing, sales compensation, and customer economics.
- Partner with supply chain and operations to manage COGS, inventory, working capital, and gross margin; build a detailed understanding of product and deployment margin drivers.
- Own treasury and cash management, including banking relationships, liquidity planning, cross-border fund flows, and working-capital discipline.
- Coordinate tax, statutory reporting, audit, insurance, and financial compliance requirements across the company's global entities, working with internal and external partners.
- Build and streamline scalable business processes and systems, including reimbursement, commissions, quote-to-cash, invoicing, contracting workflows, and financial systems.
- Build and lead a high-performing North America finance organization, tightly coordinated with the global financial teams. Remain willing to operate hands-on where needed.

## What We’re Looking For

- 10+ years of progressive finance and accounting experience, with meaningful operating experience in a high-growth, multi-entity business.
- Can communicate effectively in Chinese Mandarin both verbally and in writing.
- Demonstrated experience consolidating financial statements across multiple global legal entities, including intercompany eliminations, foreign-currency translation, and coordination of local statutory accounting.
- Demonstrated experience with global transfer pricing, multi-entity tax planning and compliance.
- Strong accounting fundamentals and working knowledge of U.S. GAAP; able to review the P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow statement in detail and identify issues at the source.
- Experience owning or materially leading monthly close, financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, and management reporting.
- Experience building financial models and KPI frameworks and using them to influence operating decisions across functions.
- Strong understanding of cash management, working capital, internal controls, and finance systems and processes.
- Proven ability to operate at both strategic and detailed levels: able to advise the CEO and Board while also diving into reconciliations, models, systems, and process gaps.
- Strong cross-functional leadership and stakeholder management skills, with a track record of driving complex projects to completion.
- High sense of ownership, urgency, accuracy, and judgment in a fast-moving environment.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate financial performance clearly to non-finance leaders.

## Preferred Experience

- Experience in a successful venture-backed technology, hardware, manufacturing, robotics, or industrial company.
- Experience supporting finance operations across the U.S. and other international markets.
- CPA, Big Four/public accounting experience, or equivalent controllership experience is a plus.

## Why Join UnitX

This role offers the opportunity to accelerate human productivity through robotics in manufacturing. You get to define how a differentiated AI-vision platform enters some of the world’s fastest-growing and most strategically important manufacturing markets. You will work directly with company leadership, influence product and market strategy, and build relationships that can become significant global accounts.

UnitXis proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value diversity, inclusion, and respect, and are committed to building a workplace where everyone can thrive. We make employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities during the application and hiring process. If you require assistance, please contact Human Resources. Requests for accommodation will be treated confidentially and in accordance with applicable laws. As a safety-sensitive, drug-free workplace, employment with UnitX is contingent upon successful completion of applicable pre-employment screening requirements.

## About UnitX

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: UnitX provides AI-powered visual inspection systems that automate inline defect detection for automotive, EV battery, and electronics manufacturing.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B, $106M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: Santa Clara, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2018
- **Founders**: Keven Wang (CEO), Weixiong Zheng (CTO), Adam Yang (COO)

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: Industrial Automation / AI-powered manufacturing inspection
- **Target Customers**: B2B, Enterprise — automotive OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers, EV battery manufacturers, electronics manufacturers, PCBA, connector, and semiconductor producers
- **Mission**: To elevate 20% of the world's GDP through intelligent automation, building the world’s best team in robotics

## Products & Services
- **CorteX**: AI training and inference system — rapidly trains, deploys, and manages yield-optimized AI models to detect and classify variable defects with high-speed, inline decisions.
- **OptiX**: Fully software-defined imaging system that captures 2D and 2.5D features inline for edge inference.
- **FleX-Gen**: Turnkey inline inspection equipment for high-speed production lines.
- **YieldX**: Analytics platform delivering data reports for AI-powered manufacturing optimization.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly available
- **Total Funding**: $106M across four rounds (Seed: $2M, Series A: $12M, Series B (June 2023): $41M, Series B extension (Nov 2024): $46M)
- **Lead Investors**: UP Partners (led Series A and most recent Series B), SE Ventures (led 2023 venture round)
- **Key Metric**: Systems currently inspect more than **$6.1 billion worth of products annually**; deployed on **100+ production lines**.
- **Customer Base**: Served 190+ customers, including 10 of the world’s top 50 automotive manufacturers, 10 of the top 30 Li Battery makers, 9 of the top 100 electronics manufacturers, and 2 of the top 4 EV manufacturers.
- **Growth Signals**: +19.6% headcount growth year-over-year; +60% job posting growth quarterly; global operations across 8 countries (US, Mexico, China, Vietnam, Thailand, Kenya, Japan, Hong Kong).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Superhuman defect detection**: AI models that detect and classify complex defects with accuracy exceeding human inspection, regardless of part, material, or position.
- **Fastest deployment**: Small-sample AI that integrates with existing imaging systems; software-defined lighting enables rapid adaptation to new environments — claim of fastest-to-deploy inline inspection in the industry.
- **Proven ROI**: Customers see a typical <12 month ROI with average $1.3M returned per production line and 3% scrap reduction.
- **Track record**: 5.7 million+ continuous operating hours across deployed systems.

## Strategic Focus
- Deepening penetration in high-growth verticals: EV battery manufacturing, automotive components, and consumer electronics.
- Enabling global scale with a hardware + software + AI platform model (imaging, inference, and analytics).
- Building synthetic defect generation capabilities to accelerate model training and improve yield outcomes for customers.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Team**: Founded by engineers from Stanford, MIT, and Google; described internally as a robotics company with values of reliability, precision, transparency, and ambition.
- **Growth Trajectory**: 78 employees with rapid expansion (+19.6% YoY); 8 active job openings including Embodied AI Engineer, Machine Learning Engineer, Simulation Engineer, and Recruiter roles.
- **Work Environment**: Santa Clara HQ with a global, cross-functional team (Sales 25%, Technical 24%, Operations 5%). Talent sourced from top companies (Keyence, Amazon, Stanford, Palo Alto Networks, Verkada) — suggests high-performance culture.
- **Perks & Mission**: Direct impact on worldwide manufacturing quality; opportunity to work on full-stack robotics combining deep learning, imaging, and hardware deployed at scale.

## Sources
1. [unitxlabs.com](https://www.unitxlabs.com/about-us/)
2. [unitxlabs.com](https://www.unitxlabs.com/)
3. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/unitxlabs)
4. [craft.co](https://craft.co/unitxlabs)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/unitxlabs/42762a56-2207-4e72-bf90-f5321683c638)

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