01Blue Origin holds 533 of 1,122 mapped GNC / flight-software / avionics seats
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 is not this page's first-screen hook.
Auckland, Los Angeles, and Seattle city reads sit in later sections. The first screen cites 533 versus 401 and 188.
02Open jobs on this slice are 318 Blue Origin, 34 SpaceX, 33 Rocket Lab
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 |
03Rocket Lab's GNC bench is Auckland 71, with New Zealand 92 and United States 87
Rocket Lab mapped current, named countries: New Zealand 92, United States 87. Named cities: Auckland 71, Long Beach 16, Los Angeles 16.
04Los Angeles holds 101 SpaceX GNC seats; Seattle holds 173 Blue Origin seats
395 of 401 SpaceX current seats are US. 531 of 533 Blue Origin current seats are US.
05How the launch GNC / flight-software / avionics slice was cut
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. Launch GNC / Flight Software Talent Map 2026 | Metix AI. https://metix.ai/reports/series/spacex-rocketlab-blueorigin-launch-gnc-2026
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