Job Description
Join the Creative Play Lab and invent ground-breaking new play opportunities and never-seen-before creative experiences for LEGO fans of today and tomorrow! As a people leader and contributor in our Hardware Engineering group, you'll be operating on a global scale in a newly developed team within the Play Engineering organization in Product Innovation and Design at the LEGO Group in Boston!
Core Responsibilities
- Serve as an individual contributor and manager of an engineering team accountable for all dimensions of Mechatronics solutions used within our products to deliver awesome play experiences.
- Champion and demonstrate best practices for engineering, teamwork, innovation, and delivery as we together develop new play experiences at the boundary between the physical and the digital world.
- Work with both internal technical staff and external partners to ensure robust integrated solutions are delivered at excellent quality and high volume to the market.
- Bring to the team their demonstrated experience in all dimensions of high-volume mechatronic product development, including expertise in small-scale motors, other classes of small actuators, sensors, and complex kinematic systems.
- Contribute to a larger simulation capability growth strategy, and support of the team in delivering with engineering excellence regarding multi-physics simulation and prototyping.
- Demonstrate exceptional systems thinking and agility as they together with the team explore, develop, and deliver highly innovative play experiences that leverage robust mechatronics solutions.
- Lead and review technical design and development activities within this functional domain; collaborate as needed throughout the Hardware Engineering group and within Play Engineering.
- Serve as an exceptional people leader to those in the Mechatronics Engineering function, providing coaching/mentorship, opportunities for professional growth, and supportive feedback to help the team members continue stretching to reach their fullest potential. The engineers will be located in our offices in Boston, Denmark, and Singapore.
Do you have what it takes?
- 10+ years of experience in roles that involved both engineering management and individual contributions in mechatronics, robotics, mechanical systems design, microelectronics, or other similar domains.
- A builder with passion for creatively using technology as a vehicle to deliver truly awesome play experiences to children around the world.
- An excitement to help grow and lead this team within Hardware Engineering as we accelerate our expansion into the Boston tech community.
- Demonstrated success in managing this technology domain as well as individual contributions involving technical leadership in design and development of relevant products from idea stage to mass production in high-volume markets (e.g. consumer electronics, robotics).
- Experience with key mechatronic component providers and manufacturing partners.
- Experience with multi physics simulation tools either as a user or as strategy leader.
- Excellent people and technology talents, written and verbal communications skills.
- Ability to travel as necessary, roughly 20-30 days per year, as part of our global team.
Compensation
In accordance with the United States Pay Transparency Law, the salary for the US position has a range of $135,000 - $202,000 with bonus eligibility, which is based on anticipated responsibilities, market benchmarks, and organizational constraints. The LEGO Group carefully considers a wide range of compensation factors, including but not limited to prior experience, skills, expertise, location, internal equity, and other considerations permitted by law. The comprehensive remuneration details, inclusive of benefits, will be communicated upon finalization of the employment offer.
Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis. However, please note we do amend or withdraw our jobs and reserve the right to do so at any time, including prior to any advertised closing date. So, if you're interested in this role we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
What’s in it for you?
- Family Care Leave: We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.
- Insurances: All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.
- Wellbeing: We want you to be your best self, so you’ll have access to the Headspace App and lots of wellbeing initiatives and programs run by local teams where you are based.
- Colleague Discount: We know you'll love to build so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount.
- Bonus: We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached and if eligible, you'll be rewarded through our bonus scheme.
We strive to create a diverse, dynamic and inclusive culture of play at the LEGO Group, where everyone feels safe, valued and they belong.
The LEGO Group is fully committed to Children’s Rights and Child Wellbeing across the globe. Candidates offered positions with high engagement with children are required to take part in Child Safeguarding Background Screening, as a condition of the offer.
Thank you for sharing our global commitment to Children’s Rights.
We conduct drug screening as a part of our drug free workplace policy and in support of our commitment to the health and safety of our employees.
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