Play Invention Hardware Internship

1001 LEGO System A/S; Billund; On-site; DKK 89,000 - 134,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Global HQ in Billund

Hybrid work policy (office presence 3+

Bonus learning network

Job summary

LEGO Group in Billund, Denmark offers a paid internship in the Play Discovery department within the Creative Play Lab. You’ll ideate, prototype and explore new play opportunities alongside a multidisciplinary team.

Start date is September 2026 for four months, with hands-on hardware and software exploration guiding your learning. You’ll work on cross‑functional missions, build prototypes, and test ideas with kids, while embracing ambiguity and growing your craft in a world‑class innovation hub

Qualifications

• Be a student for the full duration of the internship period.
• Available to start 1 September 2026 and end 31 December 2026 in Billund.
• Must contribute to course credit as part of education.

Responsibilities

• Push the boundaries of play by imagining new universes and prototypes.
• Research innovative technologies and toys for new play possibilities.
• Communicate ideas through sketches, models and digital mockups.
• Create LEGO elements and prototype with hardware and software.
• Test prototypes with kids and gather feedback for iteration.
• Collaborate with designers, developers, engineers, and researchers.

Skills

Curiosity

Bravery

Focus

Education

Student for internship

Tools

SMART Bricks

LEGO motors

Breadboards

PCBs

Job description

Job Description Are You an Aspiring Toy Inventor Looking to Discover New Play? Join the LEGO Group’s Play Discovery team within the Creative Play Lab for a Paid Internship at our Head Quarters in Billund, Denmark! Are you driven by an unquenchable passion for discovering new play opportunities through early-stage ideation, concept development, and prototyping? If so, you could be one of the talented students joining our Play Discovery department this year, where creativity and imagination thrive! Start date: September 2026 Length: 4 months (until end of December 2026)

About us

Creative Play Lab is an ambitious, future‑focused innovation hub inventing radical new play opportunities and never‑seen‑before experiences for LEGO fans of today and tomorrow. We grow the boundaries of what play can become, using bold experimentation, advanced technologies, and deep insight into how kids play to imagine meaningful, next‑generation experiences. Our mix of creatives, innovators, researchers, engineers, and technologists rapidly transforms curiosity into tangible concepts, redefining the future of play and ensuring LEGO play remains at the forefront of creativity and joyful exploration.

As an intern in our Play Discovery department, you’ll join teams dedicated to letting loose their creative curiosity and exploring new play experiences. You’ll unleash your imagination across a range of innovation missions, collaborating cross‑functionally to develop concepts into playable prototypes.

About the Internship

We look for interns who bring something genuinely different to our innovation hub, adding fresh cultural insight, creative energy, and new ways of thinking. Your time with us will span personal curiosity projects, team capability‑building initiatives, and innovation Missions. Every day is different and you’ll learn directly from a world‑class multidisciplinary team as you build your craft, embracing ambiguity as you discover new play experiences.

Meet the Play Invention Hardware team

We are a capability of Play Discovery, powered by creative technologists who invent, prototype and pioneer play by finding the magic in technology. We sketch ideas using hardware and software together, and prototype with SMART Bricks, LEGO motors, breadboards, electronic components, PCBs and code to explore how things like sensors, motors, lights and sound can be used to create new play experiences.

We research, explore and co‑create. We build, make and prototype. We test, demo and play with kids and stakeholders. We work from sketch ideas and true playable hardware all the way to complete play experiences that will extend the longevity of kids' play.

Internship Eligibility

• (1) You will be a student for the full duration of the internship period;
• (2) You are currently due to graduate after 31st December 2026;
• (3) You will not be requesting a delayed graduation date to qualify for this internship;
• (4) This internship will contribute quantitatively towards your course credit and is a compulsory part of your education;
• (5) You are available to undertake this internship contract starting from 1st September 2026 and ending on 31st December 2026 in Billund, Denmark.

What we’re looking for

• Curiosity: Our teams thrive on a playful curiosity in all they do. You need to be always asking questions, seeking the reason “why”, digging for answers even when it’s hard and never stop wondering “what if…”
• Bravery: Our organisation is a huge place full of different people and different perspectives. You need to be comfortable meeting new people every day, speaking up when you disagree, receiving feedback, facing the unknowns of innovation head on and forging yourself a path when things aren’t well defined.
• Focus: Our workload and priorities are always changing. You need to be happy shifting priorities fast, focusing on a high priority task one week then focusing on developing your own independent curiosities the next.

Responsibilities

• Push the boundaries of play by imagining new universes, creating compelling characters and constructing new prototypes to bring concepts to life
• Research innovative technologies, materials and toys to discover new possibilities within physical and digital play
• Communicate ideas through a range of media e.g. sketches, models, digital mockups, 3D prints etc.
• Create new LEGO elements and be resourceful using every tool at your disposal to hack, build and learn every day
• Explore new play opportunities by testing physical / digital prototypes to gather feedback and iterate on ideas
• Collaborate with a team of experienced designers, developers, engineers, artists and researchers to drive our innovation missions forward

Perks

Work with a passionate multi-disciplinary team of like‑minded creative inventors where you’ll learn something new every day and build your professional network.

Live and work in the global headquarters of the LEGO Group in Billund, Denmark and explore our state‑of‑the‑art campus.

Be an active co‑creator with kids – they know how to make fun and meaningful play.

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 our people to feel well and thrive. We offer resources and benefits to nurture physical and mental wellbeing along with opportunities to build community and inspire creativity.
• 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.
• 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.
• Children are our role models. Their curiosity, creativity and imagination inspire everything we do. We strive to create a diverse, dynamic and inclusive culture of play at the LEGO Group, where everyone feels safe, valued and they belong.

Equal Employment and Diversity

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 and religion) to apply for roles in our team.

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.

Just imagine building your dream career. Then make it real. We are aware of reports of fraudulent emails and social media messages from individuals falsely claiming to represent the LEGO Group recruitment teams. Please check that recruitment communications are from an official LEGO email address before responding Children are our role models. Their curiosity, creativity and imagination inspire everything we do. Our founder Ole Kirk Kristiansen made his first wooden toy in 1932. He persevered against the odds until his business was a success. Constantly innovating, never compromising. Building, rebuilding, and striving for the best. It is this resilience and permanent sense of renewal that drives us forward. We are never still. We will always be creating, inventing, and having fun. Build your career brick by brick and play your part in continuing our mission to “inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow”.