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Space Jobs for GNC Engineers in the Los Angeles Area

81 open roles for GNC engineers at 25 space companies name a site in the Los Angeles area, most of them in Long Beach and El Segundo; typical pay runs $150k–$270k/yr. Listed straight from each employer's careers site, checked every hour.

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Space companies hiring GNC engineers in the Los Angeles area

EmployerOpen roles hereMedian posted pay
Rocket Lab9$176k/yr
The Aerospace Corporation8not stated
True Anomaly8$210k/yr
SpaceX7$138k/yr
Anduril4$165k/yr
Apex4$163k/yr
Impulse Space4$168k/yr
Inversion Space4$191k/yr
Relativity Space4$161k/yr
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)3$164k/yr
K2 Space3$155k/yr
Northrop Grumman3$178k/yr
Quantum Space3$155k/yr
Varda Space Industries3$193k/yr
Astrolab2too few figures
Boeing2too few figures
Reflect Orbital2too few figures
Amazon Leo1too few figures
General Galactic1too few figures
Millennium Space Systems1too few figures
MITRE1too few figures
Outpost1too few figures
Turion Space1too few figures
Vast1too few figures
Virgin Galactic1too few figures

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Updated 31 Oct 2026, 13:02 UTC

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What people ask about GNC engineers' work in the Los Angeles area

Which space companies hire GNC engineers in the Los Angeles area?

Today, Rocket Lab (9 roles), The Aerospace Corporation (8 roles), True Anomaly (8 roles), SpaceX (7 roles), Anduril (4 roles), Apex (4 roles), and 19 more. The table above lists every employer with a role open in the Los Angeles area.

Where in the Los Angeles area are the roles for GNC engineers?

Most are in Long Beach (22), El Segundo (15), Hawthorne (14), Los Angeles (8), as the postings name their sites. A role that names several sites counts at each.

How much do space roles for GNC engineers in the Los Angeles area pay?

The roles here that state pay post a median $176k/yr, with typical pay from $150k–$270k/yr; 91.8% of California's postings state their pay at all, which our research on where space jobs are compares state by state. California's law has required employers with 15 or more employees to state a pay range in job postings since 1 Jan 2023 (each state's law beside its postings). For reference, the 5,200 aerospace engineers working in the Los Angeles area, in any industry, earn a median $163k/yr (BLS, May 2025). The space roles for GNC engineers here post a median $176k/yr today, 7.8% above that; our research on levels and pay sets every profession and area side by side, once a day.

Do roles for GNC engineers in the Los Angeles area require US citizenship?

Of the 4,858 space postings in California whose text we read, 76.4% are limited to US citizens or US persons and 35.6% name a security clearance, by our research on who can apply, which compares every state. Each posting states its own rule, often citing export control under ITAR or the EAR.

How is this list made?

We read each employer's own job board every hour. A role is listed here when it is a US role and its own location line names a place in the Los Angeles area (the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metropolitan statistical area as the Census Bureau draws it: Los Angeles and Orange counties), by the same reading as our research on where space jobs are, and its title names the profession by the same rule as the page for GNC engineers; remote roles that name no state are on the remote jobs page.