Senior Hybrid Gameplay Engineer

LEGO Digital Play (LDP) will bring the LEGO brand into the world of first-party digital entertainment and gaming. Our mission is to ensure the LEGO Brand remains as powerfully a part of children’s lives in the coming decades as it has ever been – as more and more of those lives take part in digital. We are a fast-growing start-up company driven by collaboration, innovation, and a shared passion for making things happen. Our culture is open, intellectually rigorous and creatively vibrant. Are you passionate about exploring innovative gameplay that connects digital entertainment with physical play in the real world? This is your chance to join the LEGO® Digital Play Hybrid Innovation team, where we invent and prototype new digital-physical fun for our upcoming games using the latest technology.

Core Responsibilities

• As a Senior Hybrid Prototyping Engineer, you will design, prototype, and evaluate hybrid gameplay interactions that combine real-world movement, sensor data, and digital feedback.
• Collaborate with game developers to identify hybrid mechanics to prototype in video game engines such as Unity, using live data from embedded hardware devices.
• Analyse the behaviour of an existing BLE communication stack and identify opportunities to improve responsiveness or reliability.
• Integrate sensor data into real-time hybrid interactions and evaluate how data characteristics influence experience quality.
• Participate in periodic technical conversations with internal hardware R&D teams.
• Coordinate communication workflows between multiple embedded devices when prototypes involve multi-device interactions.
• Work effectively within a small prototyping team operating with short iteration cycles and evolving requirements.

Required Skills And Experience

• We are looking for an engineer who enjoys experimenting with new types of interaction, working with unconventional data, and building prototypes that reveal what is possible.
• The ideal candidate has senior-level engineering experience working with external or embedded hardware in interactive systems.
• Experience with sensors, IoT, and interactive components (e.g., motion sensors, NFC, haptics, sound, motors), and interactive integration.
• Experience prototyping motion or gesture interactions.
• Experience developing in video game engines such as Unity.
• Ability to participate productively in open creative discussions about hybrid gameplay mechanics.
• Experience coordinating communication across multiple embedded devices.
• Comfortable working as a generalist across input handling, gameplay logic, and interaction feel.
• Prioritises focused and well-executed experiments over polish.
• Self-directed working style with the ability to define next steps and maintain momentum.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with NFC read/write workflows.
• Experience with BLE communication stacks for embedded hardware.
• Experience using microphone and camera input in gameplay.
• Experience in prototyping physical interactions, using materials like LEGO bricks, 3D printing, and mechatronics.
• Sensitive to the feel of motion: texture, precision, sampling characteristics, and timing.
• Clear technical writing skills suited to internal reporting.
• Hands-on skills in prototyping tools, such as Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Micro:bit, or Unity for interactive play experiences.