The difference between close enough and done right
TILT Autonomy designs and builds the autonomy that runs uncrewed aircraft and boats — the boards, the firmware on them, and the ground software crews command them from — out of our shop in Annapolis, Maryland. We do all of it in house. Handing pieces of it to somebody else is how you end up with a system that mostly works.
What we build is out in the field, and the people using it are not forgiving. That suits us. We would rather get it right than ship it and explain it afterwards.
Craft
From the schematic to the enclosure to the code on the board, somebody here owns it and puts their name on it. "Good enough" has never been good enough — the whole job is the difference between close enough and done right.
Ownership
Nobody is handed a ticket. You take a problem from the fuzzy end, work out what done looks like, build it, and then go watch it work. If the tool you need does not exist, you build that too.
Each other
A mix of engineers, technicians, and people who came up through the trades. We are in the shop together and on the water together, and we cover for each other when a deadline or a sea state says otherwise.
annapolis, maryland
We are here on purpose. Anne Arundel County sits between Baltimore and Washington, so the people who use this equipment — Fort Meade, the Naval Academy, the Navy labs, the program offices — are a drive away rather than a flight. We would rather put the hardware in somebody's hands than mail them a slide deck.
It is also a county that has been building things on the water for three hundred years: two hundred marinas, working boat yards, a marine trades apprenticeship turning out technicians every year. That is a deep bench of people who are good with their hands, and it is a bench we hire from. Whatever we build — aircraft or vessel — gets tested a few miles from where it was built, and you can still afford to live near the shop.
Acquisition Specialist
Buy the things we build with — long-lead components, machined parts and PCBAs — and keep material flowing to our floor and our contract manufacturers.
Assembly Technician (Entry-Level)
Good with your hands, careful by nature, and want to learn precision hardware assembly? We'll teach you the rest.
Assembly Technician
Take assemblies from parts to finished product — cable harnesses, PCBAs, mechanical subassemblies — and be the operational backbone of the production floor.
Autonomy Software Engineer
Write the autonomy software that runs on the aircraft and the vessels — embedded, real-time code close to the metal, and whatever tooling you need to prove it works.
Full-Stack Software Engineer — Internal Tools
Build the internal tools that keep TILT running — BOMs and procurement, inventory, label printing, dashboards, and putting Claude to work on the tedious parts.
Manufacturing Engineer
Own DFM, work instructions, and mistake-proofing so a contract manufacturer can build TILT hardware without a TILT engineer standing next to the line.
Quality Engineer
Own acceptance, first-article inspection, and non-conformance so 'built at a CM' means 'airworthy'.
Production Test Engineer
Turn built-in test and acceptance procedures into fixtures a technician can run without judgment — the work that converts directly into labor-hours per boat.
We care more about what you can build than where you learned it. No specific degree is required. TILT Autonomy is an equal opportunity employer. Some roles require U.S. citizenship or permanent residency because of the work we do for the U.S. government.