Senior Staff Engineer, Systems Engineering

1012 LEGO Systems, Inc.; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

LEGO Group in Boston seeks a Senior Staff Engineer in Systems Engineering to lead cross-functional teams across hardware and software for high-complexity, connected devices. You will influence architecture and drive end-to-end product development across North America, Europe, and Asia.

The role requires guiding both early research and late-stage operational improvements, ensuring safety, quality, and regulatory compliance while delivering world-class LEGO experiences.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in systems engineering and technical leadership on complex hardware/software projects.
• Cross-functional leadership across diverse engineering disciplines.
• Experience with high-volume hardware/software development and product delivery.

Responsibilities

• Serve as accountable technical leader of global multi-functional engineering teams.
• Lead early stage research and late stage operational improvement projects.
• Lead cross-functional design and system-level trade-off reviews.
• Influence through team leadership, engineering excellence, risk management and delivery.
• Coordinate internal and external staff to deliver integrated solutions.
• Ensure safety, regulatory, quality, and business requirements are met.
• Contribute to team success as a key member.

Skills

Systems Engineering

Technical Lead

Cross-functional leadership

Hardware/software integration

End-to-end product development

Risk management

Global collaboration

Job description

Job Description

Are you ready to build the next generation of Play? Join the Creative Play Lab and invent radical new play opportunities and never-seen-before creative experiences for LEGO fans of today and tomorrow! As a leader and senior individual contributor role in our Hardware Engineering group, you'll be operating on a global scale within the Creative Play Lab organization in Product Innovation and Design at the LEGO Group in Boston!

Core Responsibilities

• Serve as accountable technical leader of global (North America, Europe, Asia) multi-functional engineering teams as we develop and integrate complex products/platforms involving numerous sub-systems (e.g. microelectronic, mechanical, firmware, other software) to deliver on outstanding end-to-end play experiences.
• Be comfortable leading both early stage research projects and late stage operational improvement projects.
• Lead successful cross-functional design and strategic development reviews that involve highly complex system-level decisions/trade-offs.
• Influence by demonstrating excellence in multi-functional team leadership, engineering, collaboration, innovation, risk management/mitigation, and delivery.
• Work with both internal and external technical staff spanning multiple engineering and operations functions to deliver integrated, manufacturable, world class solutions to the market.
• Ensure solutions delivered meet end-user needs, safety/regulatory/quality requirements, and all other agreed-to business requirements.
• Play your part in our team succeeding.

The Senior Staff Engineer, Systems Engineering plays a senior individual contributor role on our Systems Engineering team within our Hardware Engineering group. This group operates on a global scale within the Creative Play Lab Engineering Capabilities which in turn is part of Product Innovation and Design at the LEGO Group. The role is based in Boston, where the LEGO Group is expanding our global engineering footprint to help advance groundbreaking innovations that will redefine the future of play for the builders of tomorrow.

Qualifications

• Strong proven experience in Systems Engineering/Technical Lead roles that involve cross-functional engineering leadership from idea stage to mass production on high complexity connected device projects
• Experience that spans across diverse engineering disciplines as well as product development and organizational process domains
• Strong experience in modern high-volume combined hardware/software system development in relevant markets (e.g. consumer electronics, robotics, medical device, automotive, or similar)
• Expertise navigating system-level interdependencies and risks to drive smart decisions with a diverse set of stakeholders
• Evidence of exceptional capabilities in creative technical problem solving in modern hardware/software systems, coupled with well-balanced team leadership skills
• Track record of strong written and verbal communications skills on global engineering efforts involving both internal and