Equifax is posting at least eight artificial intelligence and machine-learning jobs at its Alpharetta campus, building a specialized team focused on credit risk, fraud detection and customer service even as Georgia's professional and technical services sector shed 11,500 positions statewide over the past year.

The openings, first reported by the North Atlanta Star, range from a generative-AI engineer requiring two years of software experience to a senior director expected to have at least a decade working with predictive models and data systems. Two of the most senior positions were posted Aug. 18, with a third engineering role focused on AI agent development following Aug. 19.

The roles point to where high-paying tech work is heading along the GA-400 corridor: toward people who can build, deploy and explain AI inside a regulated financial business.

What the team will do

The senior director will oversee an "agentic" platform where specialized AI agents perform multistep engineering and analytical work. A senior machine-learning engineer will focus on model interpretability, translating how a model reached its conclusion into language regulators and customers can understand. That skill matters in lending and credit analysis, where Equifax must defend the data and assumptions behind every risk score.

An AI research engineer role requires developing 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. A senior fraud data scientist will build models addressing identity theft, account takeovers and payment fraud, requiring seven to 10 years of production-level experience with tools including Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Spark and BigQuery.

The most accessible opening is a generative-AI engineer position requiring a bachelor's degree, two years 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.

Four days in the office, no visa sponsorship

The positions require employees to work onsite Monday through Thursday, with Friday available for remote work. That four-day in-office requirement is stricter than the two- or three-day hybrid schedules the North Atlanta Star reported are common among North Atlanta employers.

All reviewed positions are direct hires. None offer current or future immigration sponsorship, including F-1 STEM Optional Practical Training extensions, which removes a portion of the recent-graduate tech workforce from consideration.

Equifax does not publish salary ranges for the openings. For context, computer and mathematical workers across the Atlanta metro area earned an average of $56.39 an hour, or about $117,290 annually, in May 2025, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Counter-trend on the GA-400 corridor

The hiring arrives as the Georgia Department of Labor reported that professional and technical services employment fell by 11,500 positions statewide during the year ending in July 2026, the largest decline of any private-sector category.

The push also follows Equifax's $25 million investment announced in September 2025 to expand its campus at 1505 Windward Concourse, converting more than 65,000 square feet of data-center space into collaborative office space. CEO Mark W. Begor said in September 2025, when the expansion was announced, that the Alpharetta campus plays a critical role in the company's global innovation strategy and will help attract top-tier tech talent.

Equifax has operated in Alpharetta since around 1989, according to Alpharetta economic development director Charlie Jewell. The expansion was expected to create capacity for nearly 250 new jobs, bringing total full-time employees at the site to approximately 1,660.

There are no posted application deadlines. Positions may close once the company identifies enough qualified candidates.