Job Title:

Recruiter, People Operations

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.

Help us hire the team — and build the systems that keep them growing — as we scale physical AI into the world's leading factories.

Role Overview:

As a Recruiter, People Operations at UnitX, you will own full-cycle recruiting across our active reqs and build the people-ops foundation that keeps employees growing once they're here — performance, employee relations, immigration, and internal communications. You will partner closely with hiring managers, leadership, and our Head of Finance to bring in great people and make UnitX a place they want to stay. The team you hire and the culture you shape will directly impact the $15B+ of products inspected through UnitX every year.

What You'll Do:

You will run full-cycle recruiting across our active reqs — sourcing, screening, interview coordination, and closing.
You will partner with hiring managers to calibrate rubrics, run debriefs, and hold the bar across the loop.
You will own the candidate experience end-to-end in Ashby — clean pipelines, fast scheduling, structured scorecards.
You will construct offers, model equity, and close candidates against competing options.
You will run our performance review cycle, partnering with leadership on calibration and ratings.
You will handle employee relations — performance plans, conflicts, and sensitive conversations.
You will coordinate active immigration cases (PERM, H-1B, transfers) with our outside immigration counsel (Boundless and Alcorn).
You will partner with the CEO and leadership on meeting cadence, OKR tracking, and action item follow-through.
You will help shape culture, belonging, and community as the team grows.

Who You Are:

Degree or equivalent experience.
3–5+ years of recruiting or people-ops experience at a startup or tech company.
Have personally closed engineering hires at startup scale.
Strong experience with Ashby (or comparable ATS) and structured interview processes.
Excited about both recruiting and people-ops work — you see them as complementary, not as a path from one to the other.
Ability to explain tradeoffs, judgment calls, and people decisions clearly to hiring managers, founders, and the broader team.
Comfortable operating in uncertainty and at the pace of an early-stage company.

Preferred Qualifications:

Robotics, hardware, applied AI, or deep-tech recruiting experience.
Bilingual English/Chinese — valued for sourcing strong candidates from TikTok, Zoom, Meta, and other bilingual-heavy companies.
Prior HR generalist exposure — employee relations cases handled, performance cycles run, handbook work.
Immigration coordination experience — PERM or H-1B work with outside counsel.
Experience with Rippling, Pave, or Sequoia comp data tooling.

Benefits:

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