Engineering Manager (Applied AI)

Location: Hybrid, based in the London office, United Kingdom

Company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company developing general-purpose artificial intelligence with a focus on safe and beneficial deployment.

What you will do

• Lead, hire, and develop a London-based engineering team working across agent safety, backend systems, applied AI, and product infrastructure.
• Set the technical roadmap for Auto-review and the Guardian platform, balancing safety, product utility, latency, and operational reliability.
• Build production systems that evaluate agent actions in real time, detect harmful behavior, and support safe recovery or escalation.
• Improve oversight of user intent, environmental context, permissions, and personalization signals while protecting privacy and reducing unnecessary friction.
• Partner with alignment researchers to turn prototypes, evaluations, and monitoring techniques into scalable product capabilities.
• Establish 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, with an understanding of agentic-system challenges.
• Strong product-engineering judgment across safety, usability, speed, and reliability tradeoffs.
• Ability to partner with research teams, translate open-ended findings into engineering plans, and communicate across technical disciplines.
• A thoughtful management system for hiring, coaching, performance, and execution.
• Commitment to building AI systems that are useful, trustworthy, and safe.

Culture & Benefits

• Highly collaborative, concentrated engineering group based in London.
• Cross-functional work with alignment research, Product, Security, Infrastructure, and other engineering teams.
• Equal opportunity employment with reasonable accommodations available for applicants with disabilities.
• Background checks are administered in accordance with applicable law.