Engineering Manager, Guardian

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

The role is highly visible and cross-functional. You will work closely with alignment researchers to translate emerging research into dependable systems, and with product teams to make agent safety a foundational capability across OpenAI.

This role is based in our London office.