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Engineering leadership for the age of AI agents

Staff-Level Engineering Leader · Applied AI-Agent Builder · Author · Systems Thinker

A close-up of an engineering schematic and a multimeter probe on a circuit board

Established engineering discipline. Hands-on agent work.

Alastair Fraser is an experienced electrical engineer and Staff-level technical leader who applies engineering discipline to AI agents and emerging automation systems. His background includes complex-system architecture, circuit and board design, avionics, RF and microwave systems, satellite communications, requirements development, trade studies, testing, troubleshooting, and team leadership.

Outside his primary engineering career, he uses AI agents to build software, operate online stores, research markets, create content, test products, develop websites, and automate practical business workflows. He is the author of The Agent Advantage, a candid guide to using agents as leverage while retaining human judgment, verification, permission boundaries, spend controls, and operational guardrails.

Relevant roles and opportunities

These are target opportunities, not past titles:

  • Staff or Principal Applied AI Engineer
  • AI-Agent Systems Engineer
  • Agentic AI Technical Lead
  • AI Solutions Architect
  • Applied AI Product Engineer
  • AI Automation or Prototyping Lead
  • Human-in-the-Loop Systems Lead
  • Emerging Technology Technical Lead
  • Technical Product or Program Lead for agentic systems
  • Systems-engineering leadership involving applied AI

Applied AI and agents

  • AI agents
  • Agentic workflows
  • Human-in-the-loop AI
  • Agent supervision
  • Agent orchestration
  • Agent guardrails
  • Permission boundaries
  • Approval workflows
  • Spend controls
  • Kill switches
  • Evaluation and verification
  • AI-assisted software development
  • AI-assisted business operations
  • Model and tool selection
  • Workflow automation
  • Prompt and context design
  • Agent failure analysis

Engineering leadership

  • Technical leadership
  • Team leadership
  • System architecture
  • Architecture development
  • Technical trade studies
  • Requirements development
  • Technical planning
  • Cross-functional coordination
  • Verification and validation
  • Root-cause analysis
  • Risk management
  • Complex-system troubleshooting

Engineering and technology

  • Electrical engineering
  • Computer science
  • Circuit design
  • PCB design and layout
  • RF engineering
  • Microwave engineering
  • Satellite communications
  • Avionics
  • Hardware/software integration
  • Communications systems
  • Python
  • C
  • Java
  • LabVIEW
  • Test automation
  • Networking
  • EMI/EMC
  • Technical documentation

Evidence map

CapabilityEvidenceWhat Alastair didLink
Agentic workflow designAgent-assisted online business workflowsDesigned staged research, generation, review, and publishing processes.Evidence
Agent guardrailsThe Agent Advantage, Chapter 10Documented execution caps, watchdogs, secrets, permissions, and kill switches.Evidence
Engineering leadershipStaff circuit-design roleLeads engineers from concept through architecture development and trade studies.Evidence
AI-assisted product developmentATS Resume DesignerDirected scope, testing, privacy decisions, hardening, and release judgment.Evidence
Human-in-the-loop designBook and store systemsKept claims, design selection, public work, and spending behind approval.Evidence
Technical writingThe Agent AdvantageAuthored a practical field guide grounded in first-person builds and sourced research.Evidence

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