Austin Clark

Chief Operating Officer Electroimpact

Last Reviewed: September 28, 2026

Executive Summary

Austin Clark is Chief Operating Officer of Electroimpact, the Mukilteo, Washington company that designs and builds the automated assembly systems, riveting machines and fiber placement equipment used to produce commercial aircraft and spacecraft. He is a career Electroimpact engineer: he joined as an electrical engineer, had passed 14 years with the company by September 2023, and now runs operations at a firm whose culture is built around engineers owning their work from design through installation. He holds undergraduate and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from Seattle Pacific University and the University of Washington.

Career Highlights

• Chief Operating Officer of Electroimpact, named in that role by the Lynnwood Times in September 2023 and again in May 2026.
• Began at Electroimpact as an electrical engineer, working on commercial and governmental aircraft and spacecraft projects worldwide.
• Had marked 14 years with the company as of September 2023.
• Led recruitment for Electroimpact’s engineering internship programme, which brought 20 interns to Mukilteo in summer 2023.

Professional Journey

Clark trained as an electrical engineer, earning an undergraduate degree in the field at Seattle Pacific University and a master’s degree at the University of Washington. He started his career at Electroimpact as an electrical engineer, contributing to projects around the world for both commercial and governmental aircraft and spacecraft programmes. By his own account, as reported in 2023, what drew him was orchestrating the many components of a project into a highly effective machine — something he now does at company level.

By September 2023 he had celebrated 14 years at Electroimpact and was serving as its Chief Operating Officer. In that role he also fronted the company’s engineering internship programme, which that summer hosted 20 interns and had by then produced ten full-time engineers at the Mukilteo site. He described the company’s recruiting pitch in terms of its structure: “At Electroimpact, engineering isn’t confined to a desk; our engineers are holistically involved in all project phases, from sales and design to assembly, delivery, installation, and ongoing support.”

He remained Chief Operating Officer in May 2026, when the Lynnwood Times profiled the company again and quoted him making the same case. Electroimpact was founded in 1986 by mechanical engineer Peter Zieve and has grown from a small Seattle startup selling riveting machines into a supplier of complete aircraft assembly lines, with customers including Boeing, Airbus, Northrop Grumman, Embraer and Blue Origin. Its machinery has been used in producing Boeing’s 787 and the 777X’s composite wings, and it employs roughly 500 engineers and technical staff, with satellite offices in the United Kingdom. The company’s “vertical responsibility” model — engineers carrying a project from design through manufacture, assembly and installation — is the operating structure Clark oversees.

Education

Seattle Pacific University

Undergraduate degree, Electrical Engineering

University of Washington

Master’s degree, Electrical Engineering