Senior Staff Engineer, Acoustical Engineering

  • Location
    Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
  • Job ID
    0000020797
  • Category
    Engineering & Science

Job Description

Are you ready to build the next generation of Play?

Join the LEGO® Group’s 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 on our Mechatronics team in our Hardware Engineering group, you'll be based in Boston but operating on a global scale within the Play Engineering organization!
 

Core Responsibilities

  • Serve as a senior individual contributor with expertise in both physical acoustics as well as associated electronics and signal processing to raise the bar on the engineering behind LEGO Group products that involve audio experiences.

  • Play key individual contributor role in work involving acoustical system technical requirements definition, proof of concept work, product/platform development, risk management, and test engineering from idea stage through mass production.

  • Work as part of a global multi-functional team (North America, Europe, Asia) to deliver to the market and lifecycle manage integrated, manufacturable solutions at excellent quality and high volume.

  • Ensure acoustical solutions are aligned with our architectural blueprint and meet all safety/regulatory/quality requirements and all other agreed-to requirements.

  • Demonstrate by example excellence in engineering, collaboration, innovation, risk management/mitigation, and delivery.

  • Work in tight collaboration with other hardware group functional team members (e.g. Mechanical, Electrical, and Embedded Engineering) from Boston, Denmark, and Singapore to support our capability growth efforts.


Do your part in our team succeeding

The Senior Staff Engineer, Acoustical Engineering plays an important role as the authority on acoustics in our Hardware Engineering group. The role is based in Boston, where LEGO Play Engineering is expanding our global 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 inspired play experiences to children around the world.

  • 9+ years of experience in Acoustical Engineering roles that involve small/miniature scale acoustical system design engineering from concept to mass production on high complexity projects.

  • Strong experience in modern high-volume, cost-constrained, end-to-end acoustical system development and productization in relevant markets (e.g. consumer electronics, robotics, medical device, or similar).

  • Proven skills in navigating and making smart decisions pertaining to audio system hardware/software interdependencies and trade-offs (physical acoustics, signal processing, firmware, test engineering, collaboration with internal and/or external content providers, etc.)

  • Exceptional capabilities in both creative technical problem solving and people skills, as proven by working successfully with internal and external 3rd party partners.

  • Ability to travel as necessary, roughly 20-30 days per year, as part of our global team.


New Location Update

This position will initially be based at 501 Boylston St or 10 St. James Street in Boston, before moving to a new office location at 1001 Boylston St by mid-2025. Our hiring teams will discuss this with you during the interview stages.


Hybrid working model

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.


Compensation

The salary for this position has a range of $124,700 - $187,000 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 finalization of the employment offer.

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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.

What’s in it for you?

Here are some of what to expect:

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. If you dream of being a part of our team and you meet many, but not all of our listed qualifications for this role, please apply.


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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