Senior Lighting & VFX Artist — Unreal Engine 5

BITKRAFT Ventures; Greater London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employer pension

Life insurance

Private medical & dental

Annual commuting allowance

Monthly home working allowance

Annual fitness allowance

Discretionary performance sharing plan

Free meals in studio

Flexible working hours

Family-friendly environment

Job summary

Fenris Creations is seeking a Senior Lighting & VFX Artist to shape the visual identity of EVE: Vanguard. You will craft lighting for FPS levels in Unreal Engine 5, create real-time VFX with Niagara, and optimize for target hardware while collaborating with art, design, TA, gameplay, and rendering teams.

You will lead by example in reviews, polish passes, and performance passes, mentoring other artists and influencing visual direction across the project.

Qualifications

• Senior-level experience as a Lighting Artist, VFX Artist, Technical 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.
• Strong experience creating real-time VFX in Niagara.
• 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 and VFX 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.

Responsibilities

• Create high-quality, production-ready lighting for FPS levels in Unreal Engine 5.
• Define and implement lighting strategies to support navigation, focus, visibility, and combat readability.
• Work with Lumen, reflections, shadows, exposure, fog, post-processing, and colour grading.
• Create real-time VFX using Niagara for weapon effects, impacts, explosions, smoke, fire, sparks, environmental effects, and gameplay feedback.
• Optimize lighting and VFX for target hardware while maintaining visual quality.
• Profile and improve performance related to GPU cost, shadows, Lumen, translucency, particles, post-processing, and volumetrics.
• Collaborate with level designers to ensure lighting and VFX support gameplay flow.
• Partner with Environment Art to elevate scene composition and emissive usage.
• Debug lighting and VFX issues such as artifacts, exposure problems, reflection issues, overdraw, and performance bottlenecks.
• Create reusable lighting and VFX setups, guidelines, and best practices.
• Lead reviews, playtests, polish passes, and performance passes, providing actionable feedback.
• Mentor and support other artists, contributing to team growth and craft quality.

Skills

Lighting Artist

VFX Artist

Technical Artist

Unreal Engine 5

Niagara

Lumen

Real-time rendering

Performance optimization

Team collaboration

Portfolio

Tools

Unreal Engine 5

Niagara

Job description

Fenris Creations is seeking a Senior Lighting & VFX Artist to shape the visual identity of EVE: Vanguard. You will craft lighting for FPS levels in Unreal Engine 5, create real-time VFX with Niagara, and optimize for target hardware while collaborating with art, design, TA, gameplay, and rendering teams.

You will lead by example in reviews, polish passes, and performance passes, mentoring other artists and influencing visual direction across the project.