Environment Artist - Lighting

Keywords Studios; Malaysia; On-site; MYR 60,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Keywords Studios is actively expanding its Southeast Asia team and seeking an Environment Artist with a Lighting focus for permanent, full-time work in Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, or Philippines. The role centers on creating high-quality environment art with a strong lighting emphasis, collaborating across art, design, and tech teams to enhance mood and readability.

Applicants should have shipped AAA titles, a strong lighting portfolio, and proficiency with Unreal, Unity, or proprietary

Qualifications

• Proven experience as an Environment or Lighting Artist on a shipped AAA or high-quality game project.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating lighting, composition, and environment art fundamentals.
• Proficiency with modern game engines (Unreal, Unity or proprietary engines).
• Solid understanding of lighting theory, color, exposure, and real-time rendering.
• Experience with PBR workflows and optimization for real-time environments.
• Ability to work collaboratively across disciplines and iterate quickly based on feedback.
• Experience with lighting tools, profiling/debugging, or scripting for workflow automation.

Responsibilities

• Creates high-quality environment art with a strong emphasis on lighting, mood, and atmosphere
• Builds, iterates, and optimises lighting setups that support gameplay, narrative, and artistic direction
• Collaborates closely with art direction, level design, and tech art to ensure lighting enhances spatial readability and performance
• Authors and maintains lighting passes, post-processing profiles, and environment shaders/materials as needed
• Troubleshoots lighting issues related to performance, consistency, or technical constraints across platforms
• Contributes to visual benchmarks and helps establish best practices for lighting workflows

Skills

Environment art

Lighting

Mood design

Real-time rendering

Team collaboration

Scripting for workflow automation

Tools

Unreal Engine

Unity

Proprietary engines

Job description

Keywords Studios currently looking to expand its team in South East Asia. We're currently looking for AAA, experienced Environment Artists specifically with Lighting experience. These opportunities can be located in either Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines (Remote), Singapore (Onsite). This is a permanent, full time position.

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 anticipating further project announcements early in 2026.

Requirements

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

An Environment Artist (Lighting Focus) at Keywords Studios:

• Creates high-quality environment art with a strong emphasis on lighting, mood, and atmosphere
• Builds, iterates, and optimises lighting setups that support gameplay, narrative, and artistic direction
• Collaborates closely with art direction, level design, and tech art to ensure lighting enhances spatial readability and performance
• Authors and maintains lighting passes, post-processing profiles, and environment shaders/materials as needed
• Troubleshoots lighting issues related to performance, consistency, or technical constraints across platforms
• Contributes to visual benchmarks and helps establish best practices for lighting workflows

Requirements

• Proven experience as an Environment or Lighting Artist on a shipped AAA or high-quality game project
• Strong portfolio demonstrating lighting, composition, and environment art fundamentals
• Proficiency with modern game engines (Unreal, Unity or proprietary engines)
• Solid understanding of lighting theory, color, exposure, and real-time rendering
• Experience with PBR workflows and optimization for real-time environments
• Ability to work collaboratively across disciplines and iterate quickly based on feedback
• Experience with lighting tools, profiling/debugging, or scripting for workflow automation

Benefits

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

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, Singapore

Area of Work: Art

Service: Create

Employment Type: Permanent

Working Pattern: Full Time, In-Office