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title: 'Product Manager, Vision & Robotics at UnitX'
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# Product Manager, Vision & Robotics at UnitX

- **Company:** UnitX
- **Location:** HQ
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-06-05
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/unitxlabs/42762a56-2207-4e72-bf90-f5321683c638

## Job description

Job Title: Product Manager, Vision & Robotics

About Us: UnitX builds the world's leading physical AI systems to automate repetitive visual tasks in factories. UnitX is a fast-moving startup with a team from Stanford, MIT, Google, and beyond. Since inception, UnitX has deployed 1,000+ mission-critical systems across 190+ of the world's leading manufacturers' production lines. Every year, $15B worth of products go through UnitX's AI inspection system to ensure quality.

## Role Overview

As a Product Manager, Vision & Robotics at UnitX, you will own two of our most important product lines: our software-defined hardware vision products in manufacturing (including end-of-line large field-of-view inspection) across the North America and Europe markets, and our robotics manipulation products. You will partner closely with hardware, software, ML, sales, and customer success teams to turn repetitive factory-floor problems into deployed products running in production 24/7/365. This work runs on real production lines and directly impacts the $15B+ of products inspected through UnitX every year.

What You’ll Do:

- Own vision products (NA & Europe): Drive the software-defined hardware vision products in manufacturing. Including the end-of-line (EOL) large field-of-view (FOV) line. From roadmap through launch and adoption.
- Own robotics manipulation products: Define requirements, set priorities, and drive UnitX's robotics manipulation products in manufacturing from concept to production.
- Translate the factory floor into roadmap: Turn real customer and production-line problems into clear MRDs/PRDs and a prioritized, defensible roadmap.
- Leverage AI to move faster: Use AI tooling for market research, competitive analysis, and accelerating product development and decision-making.
- Partner cross-functionally: Work hand-in-hand with hardware, software, ML, sales, and customer success to ship products that hold up in the messy world of factory automation.
- Be in the field: Travel up to 50% to customer sites across North America and Europe to ground product decisions in real deployments.
- Operate with high agency: Make tradeoffs quickly in an ambiguous, fast-moving environment, and own outcomes end-to-end.

Who You Are:

- 5+ years of product management experience.
- Track record shipping software-hardware-integrated products.
- Proficient in leveraging AI for market research and product development.
- Able to explain tradeoffs, experiments, and decisions clearly to engineers, founders, and customers.
- Comfortable operating in uncertainty and at the pace of an early-stage company.
- Willing to travel up to 50% and to be on-site at our Milpitas HQ five days a week.
- Speak Mandarin fluently.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience working on robotics.
- Prior experience as an engineer.
- Exposure to manufacturing, industrial automation, or machine-vision domains.

## Compensation

- Competitive salary & equity
- Unlimited PTO
- Full Medical, Dental, Vision, 401k
- Daily meals provided with your own choice

## 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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