Engineering Manager, Guardian

The role

You will lead and grow the Guardian team in London to build safety and oversight systems for AI agents. You will own engineering strategy and execution for production systems that evaluate agent behavior and identify risk.

What you will do

• Lead, hire, and develop a London-based team of engineers.
• Set the technical roadmap for Auto-review and the broader Guardian platform.
• Build production systems that evaluate agent actions in real time.
• Improve how oversight systems understand user intent and context.
• Partner with alignment researchers to turn prototypes into scalable product capabilities.
• Work across Product, Security, and Infrastructure teams to integrate Guardian capabilities.
• Establish rigorous evaluation and operational practices.

Required qualifications

• Significant experience leading engineering teams that shipped complex, high-stakes production systems end to end.
• Strong product-engineering judgment to navigate tradeoffs across safety, usability, speed, and reliability.
• Ability to partner effectively with research teams and translate findings into engineering plans.
• A thoughtful management system for hiring, coaching, performance, and execution.

Nice to have

• Built with AI agents or large language models in a core product, startup, or technically serious independent project.

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.