Play Invention Physical Internship

1001 LEGO System A/S; Billund; On-site; DKK 112,000 - 156,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Family Care Leave

Life and disability insurance

Wellbeing resources

Colleague Discount

Bonus scheme

Hybrid work policy

Job summary

LEGO Group in Billund, Denmark invites aspiring toy inventors to join the Play Discovery team in Creative Play Lab for a paid internship. You will work on early-stage ideation, concept development, and prototyping with a multidisciplinary team at LEGO’s global headquarters.

The internship runs from September 2026 for four months, with hands-on learning, collaboration with designers and engineers, and opportunities to contribute to meaningful play experiences for LEGO fans of today and tomorrow.

Qualifications

• You will be a student for the full duration of the internship period (Sept–Dec 2026).
• You are due to graduate after 31 December 2026.
• This internship contributes to your course credit and is a compulsory part of your education.
• Starting 1 September 2026 and ending 31 December 2026 in Billund, Denmark.

Responsibilities

• Brainstorm a range of possible physical prototypes with a small team.
• Use making skills to solve a physical challenge.
• Design and make physical elements for a prototype.

Skills

Curiosity

Bravery

Focus

Teamwork

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.

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.

Internship Eligibility

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

We also encourage interns to have experience with at least some of the following: Sketching Painting Sculpture Woodwork Graphic Design LEGO® Model Building Textiles Machine Workshop tools e.g. lathe, drills etc. Electronics 3D CAD programs Game Engines Coding Videography / Editing

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.
• Team work: Our best ideas come when we have an amazing rapport with our colleagues and we can collaborate in a respectful and energising way. You need to be at home bouncing ideas off others and building upon the unique contributions and perspectives of your colleagues to create something bigger and better than the sum of its parts. You also need to be encouraging, supportive and empathetic to the fact that different teammates will have different viewpoints and opinions.

Responsibilities

• Brainstorm a range of possible physical prototypes with a small team to explore how to integrate new materials or functions into physical play
• Use your making skills to problem solve a particular physical challenge
• Design and make physical elements that can fulfil a particular purpose or function within a prototype

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. 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”.