Senior Engineer, RF

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!

• 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

• 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 days per year.

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.

Our workplace enables our LEGO colleagues to be and do their best at work. Introducing 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.

The salary for this position has a range of $113,015.00 - $169,523.00 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.

Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis. However, please note we do amend or withdraw our jobs and reserve the right to do so at any time, including prior to any advertised closing date. So, if you're interested in this role we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

• 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.

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.

We support our employees in being there for the moments that matter in life and celebrate families of all kinds, the loved ones that make us who we are. Being part of the LEGO Group also means taking part in our annual Play Day, playing a part in building a sustainable future and continuing our mission to "inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow."

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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