Cybersecurity AI Engineer III — Secure AI Automation

American Credit Acceptance; Spartanburg (SC); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

American Credit Acceptance in Spartanburg, SC, seeks a Cybersecurity AI Engineer III to build and operate secure AI-enabled automations within our cybersecurity and AI platform architectures. This hands-on role collaborates across Security Operations, IAM, Application and Cloud Security, and Risk teams to accelerate AI adoption while upholding engineering standards.

You will design bounded AI workflows, APIs, and integrations, implement guardrails for security and governance, and contribute

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of experience in cybersecurity engineering or related field.
• Experience building automation using Python and REST APIs/SDKs.
• Working knowledge of GenAI concepts including LLMs, tool calling, agents and RAG.
• Strong security engineering fundamentals across IAM, cloud security, logging/monitoring, and incident response.
• Ability to communicate risks, design tradeoffs, and control implications to engineers and risk stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate bounded AI/agentic cybersecurity workflows for triage, enrichment, investigation support, control validation, evidence collection, remediation coordination, and analyst decision support.
• Develop reusable APIs, connectors, agent tools, plugins, event integrations, data transformations, and orchestration components to securely connect models and agents to cybersecurity and developer platforms.
• Apply least privilege, secrets protection, policy enforcement, audit logging, and governed data handling across workflows.

Skills

Python

REST APIs/SDKs

CI/CD

Infrastructure-as-code

Secrets management

Auditing/logging

LLMs / GenAI concepts

Communication

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

American Credit Acceptance in Spartanburg, SC, seeks a Cybersecurity AI Engineer III to build and operate secure AI-enabled automations within our cybersecurity and AI platform architectures. This hands-on role collaborates across Security Operations, IAM, Application and Cloud Security, and Risk teams to accelerate AI adoption while upholding engineering standards.

You will design bounded AI workflows, APIs, and integrations, implement guardrails for security and governance, and contribute