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 your part in our team succeeding
The Senior Manager, Mechatronics Engineering serves as both an individual contributor and people manager within our Hardware Engineering group. This group operates on a global scale within the Play Engineering organization in Product Innovation and Design at the LEGO Group. The role is based in Boston, where LEGO Play Engineering is expanding our global footprint to help advance groundbreaking innovations that will redefine the future of play for the builders of tomorrow.
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.
New Location Update – US Only
This position will initially be based at our LEGO office at either Boylston St or St. James St, Back Bay, Boston before moving to a new central Boston office location by the end of 2026. Our hiring teams will discuss this with you during the interview stages.
Hybrid working model
Our workplace enables our LEGO® colleagues to be and do their best at work. Introducing a flexible way of working is a great example of how we live up to our ambition. This 3 day in the office hybrid model will exemplify our People Promise by embracing the different life situations of our colleagues.
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.
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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?
Here are some of what to expect:
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
Your workplace – When you join the team you’ll be assigned a primary workplace location i.e. one of our Offices, stores or factories. Our hybrid work policy means an average of 3 days per week in the office. The hiring team will discuss the policy and role eligibility with you during the recruitment process.
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 highly committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay and seeks to encourage applicants from all backgrounds (eg. sex, gender identity or expression, race/ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, age, religion and Veteran status) to apply for roles in our team.
Research shows that women and people from different minority backgrounds often only apply for a job if they meet 100% of the listed qualifications. If you dream of being a part of our team and you meet many, but not all of our listed qualifications for this role, please apply.
We support our employees in being there for the moments that matter in life and celebrate families of all kinds, the loved ones that make us who we are. Being part of the LEGO Group also means taking part in our annual Play Day, playing a part in building a sustainable future and continuing our mission to “inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow.”
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.
To apply for this job please visit www.lego.com.