Real-Time Lighting Artist (Hybrid) — Unreal/Unity

HellaGoodAudio; Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Keywords Studios in Asia Pacific, Australia is seeking a Lighting Artist to create high-quality lighting for real-time game environments and cinematics. You will align visuals with the project’s artistic direction, develop lighting optimized for Unreal Engine or Unity, and collaborate with the Art Director and cross-functional teams.

You will contribute to reviews and iterative processes, ensuring performance, memory, and platform-specific constraints are respected while pushing visual quality.

Qualifications

• Extensive real-time lighting experience with a strong portfolio.
• Solid knowledge of lighting, composition, colour theory, and storytelling.
• Experience with Unreal Engine or Unity and optimized assets.
• Ability to collaborate across multidisciplinary teams and implement feedback.

Responsibilities

• Create high-quality lighting for environments and cinematics.
• Align lighting with artistic direction, mood, tone and atmosphere.
• Develop lighting optimized for real-time game engines.
• Collaborate with Art Director and cross-functional teams to maintain consistency.
• Participate in reviews, feedback sessions, and iterative development processes.
• Ensure lighting meets performance, memory and platform requirements.

Skills

Lighting artist experience

Visual storytelling

Real-time lighting optimization

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Unreal Engine

Unity

Lumen

Light baking

Post-processing

Job description

Keywords Studios in Asia Pacific, Australia is seeking a Lighting Artist to create high-quality lighting for real-time game environments and cinematics. You will align visuals with the project’s artistic direction, develop lighting optimized for Unreal Engine or Unity, and collaborate with the Art Director and cross-functional teams.

You will contribute to reviews and iterative processes, ensuring performance, memory, and platform-specific constraints are respected while pushing visual quality.