Senior Staff Engineer, Systems Engineering

lego; United States; Hybrid; USD 135,000 - 202,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Family Care Leave

Life and Disability Insurance

Headspace wellbeing program

Colleague discount

Bonus scheme

Hybrid work policy

Job summary

The LEGO Group in Boston is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer specializing in Systems Engineering to lead cross‑functional teams across the globe.

You will drive architecture decisions, balance risk, and guide projects from concept to mass production of complex hardware/software platforms for play experiences worldwide. You will collaborate with internal and external partners, travel about 20–30 days per year, and contribute to a culture of safety, quality and innovation within a hybrid work model.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in Systems Engineering/Technical Lead roles with cross-functional leadership.
• Experience from idea stage to mass production on high-complexity connected devices.
• Experience across diverse engineering disciplines and product development processes.

Responsibilities

• Lead global, multi-functional engineering teams across regions to deliver system-level products.
• Oversee early research and late-stage operational improvement projects.
• Drive cross-functional design reviews and system-level trade-offs.
• Demonstrate excellence in multi-functional leadership, engineering, collaboration, and risk mitigation.
• Coordinate internal and external staff to deliver manufacturable, world-class solutions.
• Ensure compliance with safety, regulatory, quality and business requirements.

Skills

Systems Engineering

Technical Lead

Cross-functional leadership

Hardware/Software systems

Global collaboration

Strong communication

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.

Do you have what it takes?

• A builder with passion for creatively using technology as a vehicle to deliver truly awesome play experiences to children around the world.
• 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 3rd party partner companies.
• Ability to travel as necessary, roughly 20‑30 days per year, as part of our global team.

Compensation

The salary for this position has a range of $134,750.00 - $202,126.00 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 finalisation of the employment offer.

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 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.

Company Culture & Inclusion

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.

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.

We conduct drug screening as a part of our drug free workplace policy and in support of our commitment to the health and safety of our employees.

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