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title: 'Product Operations Engineer at UnitX'
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# Product Operations Engineer at UnitX

- **Company:** UnitX
- **Location:** Milpitas, CA / HQ
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-05-12
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-05
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/unitxlabs/839e403d-8050-4432-925f-3e59fe65feae

## Job description

## About UnitX

UnitX is building the world’s best robotics product to accelerate human productivity in manufacturing. UnitX is a fast-moving startup with a team from Stanford and Google. Since inception, UnitX has shipped 1000+ mission-critical systems across 180+ of the world's leading manufacturers' production lines. Every year, $6.1B dollar worth of products (think EV batteries) go through UnitX AI inspection system to ensure quality.

Founded by engineers from Stanford, MIT, and Google, we’re a fast-moving Series B startup combining cutting-edge machine vision, robotics, and AI. We value creativity, precision, and ownership. We’re looking for builders who want to shape the next generation of intelligent factories.

## The Role

We are looking for a Product Ops Engineer to support customer deployments, build customizations, troubleshoot technical issues, and help improve the product based on field needs. This role works closely with Engineering, Product, FAE, and customer teams.

## Responsibilities

- Support customer deployments from setup through acceptance.
- Configure and customize the product for customer applications.
- Build integrations with systems such as PLC, MES, FTP, and databases.
- Troubleshoot issues across software, hardware, networking, and configuration.
- Build scripts and tools to improve deployment and debugging efficiency.
- Document solutions and share learnings with the team.
- Identify recurring product gaps from customer deployments.
- Contribute small bug fixes and product improvements with support from the Engineering team.

## Requirements

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Automation, Robotics, or a related field.
- Solid programming skills in Python or C++.
- At least 1 year of work experience in a customer facing technical role.
- Experience with PLC, MES, industrial networking, or system integration.
- Comfortable working with Linux and debugging technical systems.
- Strong problem-solving and hands-on troubleshooting skills.
- Good communication and teamwork skills.
- Willing to work directly with customers and field teams.

## Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with machine vision, industrial automation, robotics, or manufacturing.
- Experience with Docker, IPCs, NVIDIA Jetson, or edge computing.

## 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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