ALPHARETTA — Equifax is recruiting engineers and data scientists to build artificial-intelligence systems for credit risk, fraud detection and customer service, creating a small but highly specialized pocket of technology hiring in Alpharetta.

At least eight active openings center directly on artificial intelligence or machine learning. They range from a generative-AI engineer requiring two years of software experience to a senior director expected to have spent at least a decade working with predictive models and data systems.

Two of the most senior Alpharetta positions were posted Aug. 18. A third engineering role that includes the development of AI agents followed Aug. 19.

The recruiting does not amount to a large expansion announcement. Equifax has not said how many people it will hire through each requisition, and one posting does not necessarily equal one eventual employee.

The openings are nevertheless a useful indicator of where high-paying technology work is moving in North Fulton: away from general software development alone and toward people who can build, deploy and explain AI inside a regulated financial business.

Current opening	Location	Minimum experience
Senior director, AI platform engineering	Alpharetta	Bachelor’s degree or equivalent; at least 10 years in a related field
Senior machine-learning engineer	Alpharetta	STEM degree or equivalent; at least seven years
AI research engineer	Alpharetta or Atlanta	Ph.D. plus three years, or master’s degree plus five years
Senior data scientist, fraud	Alpharetta	Master’s or Ph.D.; seven to 10 years
Generative-AI engineer	Alpharetta or Atlanta	Bachelor’s degree; two years developing production software and one year in cloud deployment
ServiceNow architect	Alpharetta	Degree or equivalent experience; five years overall, including three years in public-cloud development

The work goes beyond chatbots

The most recent openings provide a detailed look at how Equifax intends to use AI.

The senior director will oversee development of an “agentic” platform in which specialized AI agents can perform multistep engineering and analytical work. The position requires experience moving generative or agent-based AI from experimentation into a production business environment.

A newly posted machine-learning role focuses on interpretability — determining how a model reached its conclusion and translating that process into something regulators and customers can understand.

That is particularly important in lending and credit analysis. A system that produces a risk score may be technically impressive, but Equifax must also be able to defend the data, assumptions and decisions behind it.

The company is also seeking an AI research engineer to develop transformer models for credit histories and other time-series data. Candidates need a Ph.D. with three years of relevant experience or a master’s degree with five years.

The senior fraud data scientist will build models addressing identity theft, account takeovers and payment fraud. That position requires seven to 10 years of production-level data-science experience, including work with massive datasets and tools such as Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Spark and BigQuery.

The least senior of the reviewed AI openings is a generative-AI engineering position. It requires a bachelor’s degree in a quantitative or computing field, two years of experience delivering production software and at least one year deploying cloud-based systems.

That employee would work with large-language models, retrieval-augmented generation and Google’s Vertex AI platform. Financial-industry experience is preferred but not required.

Hybrid now means four office days

These are not remote positions.

The Alpharetta AI jobs generally require employees to work in the office Monday through Thursday, with Friday available for remote work. Positions shared between Alpharetta and Equifax’s Atlanta office carry the same four-day requirement.

That arrangement is more restrictive than the two- or three-day hybrid schedules still used by many North Atlanta employers. It favors workers already within commuting distance of Alpharetta and reduces the practical reach of the openings for candidates elsewhere in Georgia.

The reviewed positions are direct hires rather than contract assignments. They do not offer current or future immigration sponsorship, including support for an F-1 STEM Optional Practical Training extension.

That limitation removes a portion of the recent-graduate technology workforce from consideration, particularly international students who otherwise possess the advanced degrees requested for the research roles.

Pay remains undisclosed

Equifax does not publish salary ranges for the Alpharetta openings.

That leaves applicants without a clear way to compare the positions before applying, especially when the experience requirements span from two years to more than a decade.

For context, computer and mathematical workers across the Atlanta metropolitan area earned an average of $56.39 an hour, or about $117,290 on a full-time annual basis, in May 2025. That broad category includes occupations at many experience levels and should not be treated as an estimate of Equifax’s offer, according to the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics report.

Equifax says eligible employees receive healthcare coverage, paid time off and a 401(k) match, but the individual postings do not detail employee premiums, bonus targets or matching formulas.

A bright spot in a softer professional job market

The openings arrive during an uneven period for Georgia’s white-collar workforce.

Professional and technical services employment fell by 11,500 positions statewide during the year ending in July, more than any other private-sector category, according to the Georgia Department of Labor.

Equifax’s hiring does not cancel that broader decline. The company’s openings are also too specialized to offer an immediate route back to work for most displaced office employees.

They do show where demand remains strong. Employers are seeking people who can combine conventional software and data skills with generative AI, cloud infrastructure, financial modeling and regulatory judgment.

Even the new full-stack engineering position includes AI-assisted coding and the deployment of autonomous agents among its responsibilities. AI is moving from a separate research specialty into the expected toolkit for other senior technology jobs.

Applicants can apply directly through the individual job links. Equifax has not posted application deadlines, so a position may close once the company has identified enough qualified candidates.

The company’s hiring process begins with an online application and résumé. A recruiter reviews the submission before arranging an initial phone conversation, followed by team-specific interviews. Selected U.S. applicants must complete employment and education verification and a drug test.

For North Atlanta technology workers, the opportunity is real but narrow. Equifax is hiring locally at a time when Georgia’s broader professional job market is shrinking. The people most likely to benefit are those who already have several years of engineering or data-science experience — and are prepared to spend most of the week in Alpharetta.