During graduate school, Dr. Angus was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow (2004-2009). Throughout her PhD, she was a Graduate Student Instructor, teaching courses including microbiology, microbial genetics and computational genomics, and microbes, health, and disease. From 2007 to 2009, Dr. Angus worked for Kapor Center as a STEM Academic Advisor and Summer Internship Coordinator-IDEAL Scholars Program. Afterward, she joined the University of California, Los Angeles as a Postdoctoral Research Scientist and UC President's Postdoc Fellow (2009-2012). Dr. Angus published three scientific articles and one book chapter in this role and mentored undergraduate students. She helped secure over $500,000 in grant funding for the Department of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology's research on biological nitrogen fixation in plants. In 2012, she joined Procter & Gamble as a Research and Development Scientist in the Global Microbiology Capability Organization (2012-2014). As a Scientist, Dr. Angus leads the development and verification of microbial methods for finished product sterility and quality. She also helped develop a new method to facilitate the assessment of microbial susceptibility and micro-efficacy of new product formulations.

In 2014, Dr. Angus became the Inaugural Academic Director of the California Alliance (Research University Alliance), where she integrated science, engineering, mentoring, and professional development experiences across partner campuses UCLA, UC Berkeley, Stanford, and Caltech through collaboration and engagement with deans, researchers, faculty, staff, and academic coordinators at educational institutions and national science organizations. Dr. Angus served in the role for two years until 2016. She also worked as an Academic Coach with Instructional Connection, LLC (2014-2021).

Dr. Angus joined The Clorox Company in 2016 as a Scientist – Research and Development, Microbiology, where she served as a representative for the microbiology group and developed microbiology testing methods. She was promoted to Senior Scientist – R&D, Microbiology in 2018. In this role, she became the technical lead for the microbiology group and led the adoption of scientific methods, modeling, and simulations. Dr. Angus was promoted to Senior Scientist of R&D, Cleaning Product Development in 2020, where she was responsible for product development in the Wipes Business Unit. Additionally, she joined Momentum Collaborative as a STEM & Education Consultant (2020-2022).

More recently, she was promoted to her current role as Research and Development Manager of Microbiology in 2021. As Manager, she leads a team ranging from technicians to scientists to ensure that the operations of the microbiology lab align with organizational goals. In addition, Dr. Angus manages the Science Education Program (SciED), a program that engages Bay Area students through classroom visits by scientists. She also leads the Black employee affinity group BELIEVE (Black Employees Leading by Inclusion, Excellence, Vision, and Education). After only ten months in the role, she was recognized for her extensive knowledge and leadership as a finalist for the 2022 R&D Leader of the Year by The Clorox Company.