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Three names add to 1,122 current / 385 jobs. Blue Origin 318 jobs is the hiring wall.
How the launch seat branches: GNC, flight-software, avionics
How it is built
This page reads the GNC / flight-software / avionics seat at SpaceX, Rocket Lab, and Blue Origin. 1,122 / 385 adds the three names.
How titles classify
Seat labels are GNC, flight-software, and avionics. This page does not invent branch counts; 318 stays Blue Origin's hiring wall.
Who compares to whom
Blue Origin 318 jobs is the wall. SpaceX 401 versus 34. Rocket Lab Auckland 71, New Zealand 92.
Outside this slice
Starlink is not here, and neither is company-wide launch headcount. This is talent flow, not a raid list.
Blue Origin's 318 open jobs are the hiring wall
As of August 26, 2026, 5:24 a.m. PT (8/26), Blue Origin maps 533 current GNC / flight-software / avionics seats versus SpaceX 401 and Rocket Lab 188.
Blue Origin maps 533 current GNC / flight-software / avionics seats. This page reads the function seat on three launch stacks; it does not lead with company-wide totals.
SpaceX maps 401 current; Rocket Lab maps 188 current. The three add 533 + 401 + 188 = 1,122.
Headline open jobs are 385. The job book is read next; 318 of that is Blue Origin's share, not the page's opening contrast.
Auckland, Los Angeles, and Seattle city reads come in later sections. The citeable set is 533 versus 401 and 188.
SpaceX 401 current against 34 jobs
Headline open jobs add three names only: 318 + 34 + 33 = 385. Blue Origin holds the thickest job book.
| Company | Mapped current | Mapped open jobs | Read |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Origin | 533 | 318 | headline · thickest bench and book |
| SpaceX | 401 | 34 | headline · thick bench, thin book |
| Rocket Lab | 188 | 33 | headline · transpacific bench |
| Headline sum | 1,122 | 385 | these three launch names only |
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Rocket Lab Auckland 71, New Zealand 92
Rocket Lab mapped current, named countries: New Zealand 92, United States 87. Named cities: Auckland 71, Long Beach 16, Los Angeles 16.
Los Angeles 101 against Seattle 173
395 of 401 SpaceX current seats are US. 531 of 533 Blue Origin current seats are US.
Blue Origin's 533 current is the later bench
Blue Origin maps 533 current seats versus SpaceX 401 and Rocket Lab 188. 533 is the bench, not this page's opening hiring wall.
Three names add to 1,122 current and 385 jobs
533 + 401 + 188 = 1,122. 318 + 34 + 33 = 385. These three launch names only.
Rocket Lab's US side is 87
Function slice
Title / function tokens: GNC, or Guidance Navigation Control, or GN&C, or Flight Software, or Avionics. Seat-family samples (no names published): SpaceX current GNC / Guidance Navigation Control; jobs Flight Software (Starship) / GNC Engineer (Starship). Rocket Lab current GNC; jobs Senior Flight Software Engineer. Blue Origin current GN&C Engineer; jobs GN&C Navigation Engineer III. Starlink, Starshield, company-wide SpaceX, and generic technician titles without Avionics, GNC, or Flight Software were not used.
Current and open jobs
The figures are profiles Metix maps as currently employed at that company name, and visible open jobs mapped to that name, not official headcount.
Names
SpaceX is the spacex.com Hawthorne company record. Rocket Lab is rocketlabcorp.com, Long Beach. Blue Origin is blueorigin.com, Kent. Counts are id-only on those records; listed-name totals are not published as headcount.
As-of and source
As of August 26, 2026, 5:24 a.m. PT (8/26). Source: Metix AI. This page does not invent company-wide totals. This page sits in the series.
Questions this report answers
- What is the Blue Origin 533 GNC / flight-software / avionics seat versus SpaceX 401 and Rocket Lab 188?
- As of August 26, 2026, 5:24 a.m. PT, Blue Origin maps 533 current GNC / flight-software / avionics seats versus SpaceX 401 and Rocket Lab 188. Headline sum, three names only: 1,122 current / 385 open jobs. These are Metix-mapped function-slice counts, not official headcount. Source: Metix AI.
- Why is 1,122 / 385 not company-wide SpaceX, Starlink, or Starshield?
- 1,122 current / 385 jobs adds SpaceX 401 / 34, Rocket Lab 188 / 33, and Blue Origin 533 / 318 only. The slice is GNC / flight software / avionics. Starlink, Starshield, company-wide SpaceX, and generic technician titles without Avionics, GNC, or Flight Software are out.
- What does Blue Origin's 318-job book mean on this slice?
- Blue Origin maps 318 open jobs on the GNC / flight-software / avionics seat, all in the United States, against 533 current. SpaceX maps 34 jobs; Rocket Lab maps 33 (United States 25, New Zealand 8). This is a talent-flow contrast, not a raid list. Official hiring pages: SpaceX https://www.spacex.com/careers/jobs , Rocket Lab https://www.rocketlabusa.com/careers and https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/rocketlab , Blue Origin https://www.blueorigin.com/careers and https://blueorigin.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/BlueOrigin.
- How should the Blue Origin 533 launch-GNC map be cited?
- Metix AI Talent Intelligence, 2026-08-26. Blue Origin 318 GNC Jobs | Launch Flight Software | Metix AI. https://metix.ai/reports/series/spacex-rocketlab-blueorigin-launch-gnc-2026
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