Box Is Hiring a New Role for the AI Era and It’s All About Agents

There’s another job title for the AI era, and at Box, it’s paying up to $183,000.

The cloud content management company is hiring an “AI Business Automation Engineer” to integrate AI agents across Box.

The role involves working across departments — such as finance, legal, or people — and finding ways to rebuild processes with an “AI-first mindset,” according to Box’s job listing.

“This isn’t a side project or something you can just do on nights and weekends,” said Aaron Levie, the CEO of Box, in an X post late Sunday. “You need to design and develop robust agents that will be used in mission critical workflows.”

While there are fears about AI destroying jobs, there are also a growing number of examples of the technology creating new roles. Last week, Stripe posted a listing for a “Forward Deployed AI Accelerator,” a role that will help the financial technology company’s marketing team embrace AI.

The “forward deployed” model was popularized by Palantir and involves employees embedding within companies or teams to integrate new technology.

Box is also taking inspiration from this model. Levie said in his X post that the AI business automation engineer role is a “highly technical job, very much akin to a forward deployed engineer for internal functions.”

The US-based role will sit inside IT but span across departments, the job listing says. It requires two to three years of engineering experience in IT or software engineering roles, and pays between $146,500 and $183,000.

Other job titles that have emerged in the AI era include “prompt engineer” and “data annotator.”

“This is just one example of the kind of role that AI will start to open up in the future,” Levie said of his company’s new role. “I expect most companies will have many flavors of this going forward.”