Cloud & AI Finance Intern at Box in Redwood City, CA, United States
- Company: Box
- Location: Redwood City, CA, United States
- Posted: Sep 23, 2026
- Type: Internship
- Salary: $30 - $30 USD
- Visa sponsorship available
Overview
As a Cloud & AI Finance Intern, you will play a key role in analyzing and forecasting Box's AI and cloud infrastructure spend. You will partner with Engineering, Product, and Finance teams to model token economics, evaluate model utilization, connect to large telemetry datasets in BigQuery, and deli…
Job description
- As a Cloud & AI Finance Intern, you will play a key role in analyzing and forecasting Box's AI and cloud infrastructure spend. You will partner with Engineering, Product, and Finance teams to model token economics, evaluate model utilization, connect to large telemetry datasets in BigQuery, and deliver actionable insights that optimize Box's investments in cutting-edge AI and cloud technologies.
Responsibilities
- Token & AI Usage Modeling: Build, maintain, and refine quantitative models tracking AI token consumption, prompt/completion ratios, caching efficiencies, and model inference costs across multiple AI model providers and workloads.
- Cloud & Infrastructure Spend Analytics: Analyze compute, storage, and infrastructure spend trends across cloud platforms (e.g., GCP/AWS), identifying key cost drivers and variances against forecast.
- Data Integration & BigQuery Pipelines: Query and connect to Google BigQuery data warehouses to extract large-scale usage telemetry, automate recurring data pipelines, and streamline financial reporting workflows.
- Model Utilization & Capacity Analysis: Track model usage patterns, agentic workflows, and API call volumes to evaluate infrastructure utilization, capacity planning, and unit economics (e.g., cost per query/workflow).
- AI Trends & Benchmarking: Research emerging AI industry trends, agent architectures, and pricing/token economics to benchmark Box’s AI cost structures against industry standards.
- Dashboarding & Reporting: Design and build automated dashboards (e.g., Tableau, Google Looker Studio, Mode) to provide self-serve visibility into AI and Cloud spend for key stakeholders.
Requirements
- 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.
- Education & Focus: Currently pursuing a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Finance, Economics, Data Science, Computer Science, Business Analytics, or a related quantitative discipline.
- Passion for AI & Emerging Tech: Deep curiosity and enthusiasm for artificial intelligence, large language models (LLMs), agentic frameworks, and AI token economics.
- Proficiency in SQL and querying large relational datasets/data warehouses (experience with Google BigQuery is a strong plus).
- Advanced proficiency in Excel / Google Sheets with experience building structured quantitative or financial models.
- Analytical Problem Solver: Strong quantitative reasoning and structured thinking with the ability to transform high-volume telemetry and usage logs into clean, interpretable financial insights.
- Proactive & Growth-Oriented: Eager to learn modern AI engineering concepts, take initiative on ambiguous projects, and leverage AI tools to automate workflows and amplify team impact.
- Effective Communicator: Able to articulate technical findings and financial takeaways clearly to both technical (Engineering) and business (Finance/Leadership) audiences.
Skills
Required
- Initiative on ambiguous projects
- Leverage AI tools to automate workflows
Preferred
- Experience with Google BigQuery
Benefits
- Box is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. Actual base salary (or OTE if commissionable role) is dependent upon factors such as: knowledge, skill level, experience, and work location. This role is also eligible for equity and benefits. For more information, check out our benefits and perks.
- In accordance with OFCCP compliance, here is the Pay Transparency Provision.
- $30 - $30 USD
About Box
Box (NYSE:BOX) is the leader in Intelligent Content Management. Our platform enables organizations to fuel collaboration, manage the entire content lifecycle, secure critical content, and transform business workflows with enterprise AI. We help companies thrive in the new AI-first era of business. Founded in 2005, Box simplifies work for leading global organizations, including JLL, Morgan Stanley, and Nationwide. Box is headquartered in Redwood City, CA, with offices across the United States, Europe, and Asia. By joining Box, you will have the unique opportunity to continue driving our platform forward. Content powers how we work. It’s the billions of files and information flowing across teams, departments, and key business processes every single day: contracts, invoices, employee records, financials, product specs, marketing assets, and more. Our mission is to bring intelligence to the world of content management and empower our customers to completely transform workflows across their organizations. With the combination of AI and enterprise content, the opportunity has never been greater to transform how the world works together and at Box you will be on the front lines of this massive shift.