Environment Artist

Keywords Studios; Indonesia; Hybrid; IDR 880,127,000 - 1,320,190,000; Full time

Job summary

Keywords Studios Asia is seeking a seasoned Environment Artist to join our team on an exciting AAA project. You will create high-quality environment art, iterate toward optimized worlds, and collaborate closely with art direction, level design, and tech art to deliver visually impressive environments.

The role requires 5+ years in shipped AAA or high-quality games, a strong portfolio, and proficiency with Unreal or Unity (or proprietary engines).

Qualifications

• Proven experience as an Environment Artist on a shipped AAA or high-quality game project.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating environment art fundamentals and processes.
• Proficiency with modern game engines (Unreal, Unity or proprietary engines).
• Experience with lighting workflows and real-time optimization.

Responsibilities

• Create high-quality environment art that supports gameplay and narrative.
• Build, iterate, and optimize environments for performance and visuals.
• Collaborate with art direction, level design, and tech art to craft worlds.
• Apply modular and kit-based approaches to environment art.
• Troubleshoot performance, consistency, and technical constraints across platforms.
• Contribute to visual benchmarks and refine environment art workflows.
• Understand textures and materials and apply them across scenes.

Skills

Environment art

Portfolio

Unreal Engine

Unity Engine

Lighting

PBR workflows

Collaboration across disciplines

Scripting for workflow

Job description

Keywords Studios Asia is currently looking to expand its team. We're currently looking for AAA-experienced Environment Artists.

Keywords Studios is a global leader providing art services to AAA Publishers. Our work can be seen across many of the top-selling titles on console and PC. We've secured an exciting AAA IP project and are anticipating further project announcements early in 2026. You'll get to work alongside seasoned developers bringing expertise from world-class AAA studios.

At Keywords Studios, we are looking for an accomplished, enthusiastic, and self-motivated Environment Artist to join our team working on an exciting, new, and unannounced project.

This position may be offered as either a permanent or fixed-term contract role, depending on the project's requirements, business needs, and the candidate's experience and level.

Only those with relevant working rights for Malaysia and Indonesia will be considered. Sponsorship and relocation are not being offered as part of this package.

What you will do:

• Create high-quality environment art
• Build, iterate, and optimise environments that support gameplay, narrative, and artistic direction
• Collaborate closely with art direction, level design, and tech art to build performant and visually impressive worlds
• Good understanding of modular and kit-based approaches to environment art
• Troubleshoots issues related to performance, consistency, or technical constraints across platforms
• Contributes to visual benchmarks and helps establish best practices for environment art workflows
• Has a good understanding of textures and materials and how to optimally create and apply them across an environment

Requirements

What you will need to be considered:

• Proven experience as an Environment Artist (5+ years) on a shipped AAA or high-quality game project
• Strong portfolio demonstrating environment art fundamentals and processes
• Proficiency with modern game engines (Unreal, Unity or proprietary engines)
• Lighting experience, has general understanding of lighting workflows (baking, performance impacts)
• Experience with PBR workflows and optimization for real-time environments
• Ability to work collaboratively across disciplines and iterate quickly based on feedback
• Experience profiling/debugging, or scripting for workflow automation
• You must have the appropriate working rights to live and work in Malaysia or Indonesia. Sponsorship is not being offered.

Benefits

Our Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) Commitment: Keywords Studios is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers applicants for all positions without regard to race, ethnicity, religion or belief, sex, age, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws. If you require any adjustments during the process please let us know in your application. We are committed to creating a dynamic work environment that values diversity and inclusion, respect and integrity, customer focus, and innovation. We especially welcome applications from candidates of underrepresented groups in the industry.

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Role Information: EN

Studio: Keywords Studios

Location: APAC, Malaysia, Indonesia

Area of Work: Art

Service: Create

Employment Type: Permanent / Contract

Working Pattern: Full Time, Remote/Hybrid