Automation & Machinery — Engineering & Consulting — California
Angold Engineering designs, builds, and commissions production machinery and field systems — then stands behind them while they run. Vision-guided robotics, GNSS machine guidance, process controls, and the software that ties it together.
Machine-learning classification and robotic picking on live production lines. Model training and deployment, multi-robot integration, and the unglamorous part: verifying what the machine actually runs, not what the dashboard claims.
Centimeter-grade RTK positioning for heavy equipment on utility-scale sites. Site-datum calibration, base-station networks, on-machine sensor integration over CAN, and QC deliverables a client's surveyors will sign off on.
PLCs, HMIs, steam and thermal process systems. Retrofits carried out on running plants, with instrumentation and remote diagnostics designed in from the start.
From napkin sketch to test article, fast. CAD, machining, 3D printing, and short-run fabrication — with the instrumentation and test data to prove the concept before you commit tooling.
Agentic AI wired into real operations: monitoring production lines, verifying deployments, maintaining runbooks, eating the paperwork. Proven in production on Angold's own systems before it's proposed for yours.
Hard problems, cool people. That’s the filter every project passes through.
Angold Engineering is led by Russ Angold, a licensed Professional Mechanical Engineer building at the intersection of agriculture, AI, and hardware. His AI defect-detection system has run in commercial production at a California food processor since 2020, with parallel R&D in specialty-crop harvesting automation and a universal AI-trainable sorting platform.
The firm is deliberately small: the engineer who scopes your project is the one who designs it, commissions it, and answers the phone when it breaks. The through-line in the work is production reality — plenty of engineering looks finished in CAD and falls apart on the plant floor or in the field. Angold Engineering's projects are judged where yours are: on uptime, throughput, and whether the crew actually uses the thing.
Every production change is measured before, changed, measured after, and reported. No "should be fine."
The system that's supposed to be running is checked against the one that actually is — down to the file hash.
Production doesn't keep office hours, and neither does support for it. Commissioning isn't the end of the relationship.
SEC 05 — Contact
A short email with what the machine should do and what it's doing instead is the fastest way to start.