Box
Engineering Manager II, Agent Runtime
Redwood City, CA, United States · Mid
Sponsorship not specified$217k-$272kDetected 12 days ago
ReactDistributed SystemsMachine LearningLLMsAgentic AILangGraphIncident ResponseLeadershipCollaboration
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About the role
- Box (NYSE:BOX) is the leader in Intelligent Content Management.
- We help companies thrive in the new AI-first era of business.
- Box is headquartered in Redwood City, CA, with offices across the United States, Europe, and Asia.
Responsibilities
- Own the onboarding of internal tenant teams onto the agent runtime, partnering closely with PMs and engineering managers across multiple product organizations to support their agent deployments.
- Drive the technical architecture of the agent runtime service, including the context retrieval layer, ensuring reliability, scalability, and quality.
- Manage and coordinate the team's on-call rotation to ensure timely and effective incident response, actively participate in escalated on-call incidents to provide leadership and support, and drive improvements by addressing recurring issues to minimize disruptions and deliver an enterprise grade platform.
- You thrive in ambiguous, fast-moving environments where priorities shift with the industry - you adapt quickly, keep the team focused, and deliver customer value even when the plan changes.
- Box is building the infrastructure that powers AI agents across our entire product ecosystem - and we need a hands-on engineering leader to run it.
- You will own the runtime engine that enables every Box product team to deploy and operate AI agents at scale, supporting tenants like Box Notes, Canvas, Automate, and Workflows.
Requirements
- If you are head-over-heels about this role but unsure if you meet all the requirements, we encourage you to apply!
- If you are energized by fast-moving, ambiguous environments where the work you do has immediate and visible impact on the business, this is the role for you.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with LangGraph or other agent harness frameworks (e.g., DSPy, AutoGen) is a plus, though equivalent experience with other agent architectures is equally valued.
Compensation
- Box is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.
Company info
- Founded in 2005, Box simplifies work for leading global organizations, including JLL, Morgan Stanley, and Nationwide.
- Our mission is to bring intelligence to the world of content management and empower our customers to completely transform workflows across their organizations.
- Box lives its values, with community and in-person collaboration being a core part of our culture.
- We are an AI-first company. This means you approach your work with a growth mindset and find ways to leverage AI to help make faster, smarter decisions that will 10X your impact at Box.
- Our platform enables organizations to fuel collaboration, manage the entire content lifecycle, secure critical content, and transform business workflows with enterprise AI.
- The Agent Runtime team is a platform team at the heart of Box's AI-first strategy.
Equal opportunity
- We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability, and any other protected ground of discrimination under applicable human rights legislation. Box strives to respect the dignity and independence of people with disabilities and is committed to giving them the same opportunity to succeed as all other employees. Inclusiveness is core to our culture at Box, and we strive to ensure you get the most from your interview experience.
- Box makes reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please complete this form. Reasonable accommodations may include scheduling adjustments, document dictation and beyond.
- Notice to applicants in Los Angeles: Box, Inc and its related branches will consider for employment, qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the Los Angeles Fair Chair Ordinance. The Fair Chance Ordinance is provided here.
- Notice to applicants in San Francisco: Box, Inc and its related branches will consider for employment, qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the San Francisco Fair Chair Ordinance. The Fair Chance Ordinance is provided here.
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