Senior Real-Time Lighting Artist | AAA Open-World

Nbcuniversal Media, LLC; Montreal; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

NBCUniversal is seeking a Principal Lighting Artist to define and drive lighting standards across an ambitious AAA open-world game set in a contemporary urban environment. This role ensures lighting quality, consistency, and realism, supporting rendering pipelines and scalable production from high-end to mobile.

Reporting to the Lead Lighting Artist, you will collaborate with Technical Art and cross-disciplinary teams to advance rendering techniques and solve complex lighting challenges as an

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in AAA game development with a focus on lighting and rendering.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating high-quality lighting and atmospheric work.
• Advanced understanding of real-time lighting, rendering pipelines, and global illumination.
• Strong expertise in lighting for environments, mood, and cinematic storytelling.
• Experience working closely with Technical Art teams.
• Strong understanding of scalable pipelines and multi-platform constraints.
• Ability to solve complex artistic and technical challenges.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain high-quality lighting standards across environments and gameplay contexts.
• Drive the development and evolution of lighting systems, global illumination solutions, and rendering workflows.
• Solve complex artistic and technical challenges related to lighting realism, atmosphere, and performance.
• Act as an expert authority in real-time lighting, rendering pipelines, and global lighting systems.
• Collaborate closely with Technical Art to ensure robust, scalable rendering and lighting systems.
• Contribute to the design and evolution of pipelines, tools, and lighting workflows.
• Define benchmarks and ensure consistency of lighting quality across the project.
• Ensure lighting solutions scale efficiently across platforms from high-end to mobile.
• Support the Lead Lighting Artist and team with high-level expertise and technical guidance.
• Review and validate lighting implementation to ensure alignment with artistic vision and technical standards.

Skills

AAA experience

Lighting expertise

Real-time rendering

Unreal Engine 5

Multi-platform

Tools

Unreal Engine 5

Job description

NBCUniversal is seeking a Principal Lighting Artist to define and drive lighting standards across an ambitious AAA open-world game set in a contemporary urban environment. This role ensures lighting quality, consistency, and realism, supporting rendering pipelines and scalable production from high-end to mobile.

Reporting to the Lead Lighting Artist, you will collaborate with Technical Art and cross-disciplinary teams to advance rendering techniques and solve complex lighting challenges as an