Job Description

Responsibilities

• Work under the direction of Art Leadership to maintain artistic consistency through lighting standards and workflows as well as adhere to established IP’s aesthetic guidelines.

• Communicate with the Art Leadership and environment team concerning lighting needs and direction.

• Use proprietary engine’s built in lighting tools to produce stunning, cinematic lighting schemes for a range of environments.

• Optimize lighting setups, shadows, post-processing, and related systems for real-time performance.

• Troubleshoot and resolve lighting, rendering, and visual clarity issues while maintaining artistic intent.

• Create and maintain documentation for lighting workflows, standards, and best practices.

Requirements

• Experience lighting environments and scenes within real-time game engines such as Unity or Unreal.

• Strong understanding of lighting theory, color space, exposure and physically based natural lighting.

• Insight into cinematography and dramaturgy, scene blocking and lighting to set different moods.

• Solid understanding of real-time rendering principles and physically based rendering (PBR) workflows.

• Experience working with post-processing, exposure, atmospheric effects, and lighting optimization techniques.

• Ability to balance artistic quality with technical and gameplay requirements

• Familiarity with modern game art pipelines and collaboration across multidisciplinary teams.

• Highly detail oriented, technically inclined with strong communication skills and a collaborative, team-oriented mindset.

Pluses

• Passion for grounded, immersive science fiction

• Experience with proprietary engines

• Knowledge of performance profiling and optimization related to lighting and rendering

• Previous cinematic lighting experience