UnitX

physical AI systems

Recruiter,PeopleOperations

United States FULL TIME
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The Brief

“Recruiter, People Operations at UnitX. Skills: full-cycle recruiting, people-ops foundation building. run full-cycle recruiting across our active reqs — sourcing, screening, interview coordination, and closing. run our performance review cycle, partnering with leadership on calibration and ratings”

What You'll Achieve.

bring in great people; make UnitX a place they want to stay; shape culture, belonging, and community as the team grows

Industry & Context.

physical AI systems

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

3–5+ years of recruiting or people-ops experience at a startup or tech company, Have personally closed engineering hires at startup scale, 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

Nice to Have

Robotics, hardware, applied AI, or deep-tech recruiting experience, Bilingual English/Chinese, 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

What You'll Do.

run full-cycle recruiting across our active reqs — sourcing

interview coordination

run our performance review cycle

partnering with leadership on calibration and ratings

handle employee relations — performance plans

and sensitive conversations

coordinate active immigration cases (PERM

transfers) with our outside immigration counsel (Boundless and Alcorn)

partner with the CEO and leadership on meeting cadence

and action item follow-through

and community as the team grows

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

partner closely with hiring managers; partner closely with leadership; partner closely with our Head of Finance; partner with leadership on calibration and ratings; partner with the CEO and leadership on meeting cadence, OKR tracking, and action item follow-through

Communication Scope

Ability to explain tradeoffs, judgment calls, and people decisions clearly to hiring managers, founders, and the broader team; internal communications

Process & Methodology

OKR tracking, action item follow-through

Full Job Description

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,

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