# Engineering Manager, Guardian

**Company**: OpenAI
**Location**: London, Greater London
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124605186

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## Description

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead and grow the Guardian team in London.

The Guardian team builds practical safety and oversight systems for increasingly capable AI agents. Our goal is to make it possible for agents to take on longer-running, higher-autonomy work while preserving meaningful safeguards, respecting user intent, and intervening when actions could cause serious or difficult-to-reverse harm.

You will own the engineering strategy and execution for production systems that evaluate agent behavior, identify risk, and take appropriate action without creating unnecessary friction for users. This is a builder-manager role with substantial technical depth. You will set direction, develop engineers, and create the operating cadence for a high-performing team, while remaining close enough to the work to shape architecture, review designs, debug difficult problems, and write code when it is the highest-leverage way to help the team move forward.

Responsibilities:

- Lead, hire, and develop a London-based team of engineers working across agent safety, backend systems, applied AI, and product infrastructure.

- Set the technical roadmap for Auto-review and the broader Guardian platform, balancing safety, product utility, latency, and operational reliability.

- Build production systems that evaluate agent actions in real time, detect potentially harmful behavior, and support safe recovery or escalation paths.

- Improve how oversight systems understand user intent, environmental context, permissions, and relevant personalization signals while protecting privacy and avoiding unnecessary friction.

- Partner closely with alignment researchers to turn prototypes, evaluations, and new monitoring techniques into scalable product capabilities.

- Work across Product, Security, Infrastructure, and other engineering teams to integrate Guardian capabilities into agent experiences throughout OpenAI.

- Establish rigorous evaluation and operational practices, including adversarial testing, failure analysis, monitoring, and metrics for safety performance, false positives, latency, and user impact.

Requirements:

- Significant experience leading engineering teams that shipped complex, high-stakes production systems end to end.

- Experience building with AI agents or large language models in a core product, startup, or technically serious independent project.

- Strong product-engineering judgment and ability to navigate tradeoffs across safety, usability, speed, and reliability.

- Ability to partner effectively with research teams, translate open-ended findings into engineering plans, and communicate clearly across technical disciplines.

- Thoughtful management system for hiring, coaching, performance, and execution.

- Deep care about building AI systems that are useful, trustworthy, and safe.

## Skills

### Required
- AI agents
- large language models
- engineering management
- product engineering
- safety and oversight systems

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