Senior Lighting Artist

Fenris Creations; Greater London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free lunches, breakfasts, drinks andSn

Employer contributory pension plan

Life Insurance

Private medical and Dental paid for

Job summary

Fenris Creations is seeking a Senior Lighting Artist to shape the visual identity of EVE: Vanguard, a first-person shooter set in the EVE Universe. You will craft high-quality lighting and real-time VFX to bring environments, weapons, and combat spaces to life, working closely with art and design teams.

You will own lighting strategies, optimize for target hardware, mentor teammates, and contribute to reviews and performance passes.

Qualifications

• Proven ownership of lighting and VFX pipelines.
• Strong knowledge of Unreal Engine 5, Lumen, and real-time rendering.
• Ability to mentor junior artists and collaborate across disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Create high-quality, production-ready lighting for FPS levels in Unreal Engine 5.
• Define and implement lighting strategies that support navigation, player focus, enemy visibility, and moment-to-moment combat readability.
• Work with Lumen, reflections, shadows, exposure, fog, post-processing, and colour grading.
• Optimize lighting for target hardware while maintaining visual quality.
• Profile and improve performance related to GPU cost, shadows, Lumen, translucency, post-processing, and volumetrics.
• Collaborate with level designers to ensure lighting supports gameplay flow.
• Partner with Environment Art to elevate scene composition, material response, emissive usage, and lighting integration.
• Debug lighting issues such as artifacts, exposure problems, reflection issues, overdraw, and performance bottlenecks.
• Create reusable lighting setups, guidelines, and best practices.
• Take part in reviews, playtests, polish passes, and performance passes.
• Lead by example in reviews, playtests, polish passes, and performance passes, providing clear and actionable feedback.
• Mentor and support other artists, contributing to team growth and raising overall craft quality.
• Act as a key stakeholder in cross-discipline discussions, influencing decisions that impact visual direction and player experience.

Skills

Strong communication skills

Mentorship

Problem solving

Collaboration across art/design/engine

Tools

Unreal Engine 5

Lumen

Post-processing

Reflections

Shadows

Exposure controls

Job description

Senior Lighting Artist

Department: Art

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: London

Description

Fenris Creations are seeking a Senior Lighting Artist to help shape the visual identity, atmosphere, and moment-to-moment impact of EVE: Vanguard, an exciting first-person shooter set in the EVE Universe.

As a Senior Lighting Artist, you will create high-quality lighting and real-time visual effects that bring Vanguard’s worlds, combat spaces, weapons, and environments to life.

This role requires strong ownership, proactive problem-solving, and the ability to influence both creative and technical decisions. You will proactively collaborate with Art, Design, TA, Gameplay and Rendering to ensure lighting and VFX not only look exceptional, but also remain readable, responsive, and optimized for target hardware. If you are passionate about building immersive worlds, delivering impactful combat feedback, and setting a high bar for visual quality in a modern shooter, this is an opportunity to define and own a critical part of the player experience.

Your Tasks

• Create high-quality, production-ready lighting for FPS levels in Unreal Engine 5.
• Define and implement lighting strategies that support navigation, player focus, enemy visibility, and moment-to-moment combat readability.
• Work with Lumen, reflections, shadows, exposure, fog, post-processing, and colour grading.
• Optimize lighting for target hardware while maintaining visual quality.
• Profile and improve performance related to GPU cost, shadows, Lumen, translucency, post-processing, and volumetrics.
• Collaborate with level designers to ensure lighting supports gameplay flow.
• Partner with Environment Art to elevate scene composition, material response, emissive usage, and lighting integration.
• Debug lighting issues such as artifacts, exposure problems, reflection issues, overdraw, and performance bottlenecks.
• Create reusable lighting setups, guidelines, and best practices.
• Take part in reviews, playtests, polish passes, and performance passes.
• Lead by example in reviews, playtests, polish passes, and performance passes, providing clear and actionable feedback.
• Mentor and support other artists, contributing to team growth and raising overall craft quality.
• Act as a key stakeholder in cross-discipline discussions, influencing decisions that impact visual direction and player experience.

Your Profile

• Senior-level experience as a Lighting Artist or similar role in game development.
• Strong hands-on experience with Unreal Engine 5.
• Good understanding of Lumen, real-time lighting, post-processing, reflections, shadows, fog, and exposure.
• Excellent artistic eye for mood, composition, colour, contrast, visual hierarchy, and player focus.
• Good technical understanding of real-time rendering and performance optimization.
• Able to balance visual quality with gameplay readability and hardware limitations.
• Experience optimizing lighting for different hardware targets.
• Comfortable using profiling tools to identify and solve performance issues.
• Understanding of shader complexity, overdraw, particle budgets, translucency, shadow cost, and scalability.
• Experience working on FPS, action, or gameplay-focused environments is a strong plus.
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across art, design, and engineering teams.
• Portfolio showing strong lighting, atmosphere, VFX, and technical problem-solving in Unreal Engine.

What We Can Offer You

• The inspiring challenge of working on a pioneering, ambitious project with great coworkers.
• An opportunity to learn and grow within an international company.
• A multicultural work environment that encourages growth, creativity, and innovation.
• Free lunches, breakfasts, drinks, and snacks in the studio.
• A family friendly work environment with flexible work hours.
• Employer contributory pension plan.
• Life Insurance.
• Private medical and Dental paid for you and your family.
• Annual Commuting Allowance.
• Monthly Home Working Allowance.
• Annual Fitness Allowance.
• Discretionary quarterly and annual performance sharing plan.