AI-Driven Data Engineer — Entry Level (2027 Start)

American Credit Acceptance, LLC; Spartanburg (SC); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

American Credit Acceptance, LLC is seeking an entry-level Data Engineer to join our AI-first engineering team in 2027. You will act as the pilot for AI-generated data solutions, ensuring correctness, security, and performance, while collaborating with business partners to translate requirements into effective prompts and pipelines.

The role emphasizes learning our business, leveraging AI coding tools, and contributing to data engineering tasks ranging from data pipelines to quality checks.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Information Systems, or a related discipline.
• 0-2 years of professional experience (internships and academic or personal projects count).
• Strong SQL skills and working knowledge of relational databases.
• Ability to quickly read, understand, and debug Python code.
• Working knowledge of Git and pull-request-based workflows.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
• Ability to clearly explain technical work, reasoning, and trade-offs, verbally and in writing, to engineers and business partners.

Responsibilities

• Prompt, review, debug, and validate AI-generated data pipelines, transformations, and code with minimal supervision.
• Collaborate with business partners to turn requirements into precise prompts and acceptance criteria.
• Prompt and maintain automated tests and data quality checks across pipelines.
• Identify bugs, security issues, performance problems, data quality issues, or architectural mismatches in AI output and fix or re-prompt as needed.
• Launch solutions and iterate with the business to ensure impact and continual improvement.
• Work in a team setting with other engineers or independently.

Skills

SQL

Python

Git workflows

Analytical skills

Problem solving

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Snowflake

AI coding tools

ETL/ELT

AWS

Job description

American Credit Acceptance, LLC is seeking an entry-level Data Engineer to join our AI-first engineering team in 2027. You will act as the pilot for AI-generated data solutions, ensuring correctness, security, and performance, while collaborating with business partners to translate requirements into effective prompts and pipelines.

The role emphasizes learning our business, leveraging AI coding tools, and contributing to data engineering tasks ranging from data pipelines to quality checks.