Senior Engineer, RF
About The Position
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! 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 : https://www.lego.com/en-us/smart-play
Requirements
- 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 communications skills on global engineering efforts involving both internal and 3rd party partner companies.
- Ability to travel as necessary, roughly 15-30 days per year
Responsibilities
- 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.
Benefits
- 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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
