Senior Engineer, RF

Job Description

Are you ready to build the next generation of Play? 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 senior individual 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 a senior IC in requirements definition, design, verification, characterization, tuning, and certification of radio and electromagnetic subsystems in complex mechatronic toys that enable great play experiences.

• Design, simulate (COMSOL, QSPICE), prototype, characterize, and optimize Near Field Communication (NFC) coils with various topologies, materials, dimensions.

• Develop and run comprehensive test plans for design verification, using equipment such as network analyzers, spectrum analyzers, signal generators, oscilloscopes, anechoic chambers, and protocol‑specific analyzers.

• Ensure products meet global radio, EMC, and immunity regulatory requirements (FCC, CE, IC, JRL, CCC, etc) by implementing mitigation techniques, running pre‑compliance tests, and supporting final regulatory compliance efforts.

• Work in tight collaboration with other Hardware Team members (e.g. Mechanical, Embedded Engineering, and others) from Boston, Denmark, and Singapore to support our capability growth efforts.

Play your part in our team succeeding.

The Senior RF Engineer is a key individual contributor within the Electronics Engineering function of our Hardware and Embedded Systems team, operating globally in the Creative Play Lab. You will be a subject‑matter expert in near‑field electromagnetic technologies, partnering with design, manufacturing, and suppliers to create NFC tag systems that are performant, cost‑effective, manufacturable, and reliable at high volumes. You will work directly with the new amazing LEGO SMART Play™ system, enabling the SMART Brick to sense and respond to SMART Tags and SMART Minifigures.

More information about LEGO SMART Play™ can be found here

Do you have what it takes?

• A builder with passion for creatively using technology as a vehicle to deliver truly exciting play experiences to children around the world.

• Experience in RF, electromagnetic systems, and circuit design roles that involve creating specifications, simulating, designing and characterizing hardware, performing validation, and supporting regulatory certification in high volume, cost‑sensitive consumer applications.

• Practical experience in implementing hardware for Near Field Communication (NFC) tags and readers and exposure to the underlying communication protocol.

• Hands‑on proficiency in designing, simulating, characterizing, and tuning NFC coil designs in varied topologies, form factors, and materials for performance (range, efficiency, Q, etc), cost, and regulatory compliance.

• Proficiency with lab equipment such as vector network analyzers, spectrum analyzers, signal generators, current probes, oscilloscopes, anechoic chambers, and protocol‑specific testers.

• Strong organizational and written/verbal communication skills on global engineering efforts involving both internal and third‑party partner companies.

• Ability to travel as necessary, roughly 15‑30 days per year.

Location

This position can be based at our LEGO office at Boylston St, Back Bay, Boston or at the Global Headquarters in Billund, Denmark. Candidates are eligible to apply for the roles at either location.

Hybrid working model

Our workplace enables our LEGO® colleagues to be and do their best roducing 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

The salary for this position has a range of $ - $ 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…