Environment Artist - Lighting

Keywords Studios Plc; Malaysia; Hybrid; MYR 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Keywords Studios is seeking an Environment Artist (Lighting Focus) to join our SEA team on a new AAA project. You will craft high-quality environment art with a strong emphasis on lighting, mood, and atmosphere, and collaborate across art direction, level design, and tech art.

The role requires proven AAA shipping experience, a solid lighting portfolio, and proficiency with Unreal, Unity, or proprietary engines.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as an Environment or Lighting Artist on a shipped AAA or high-quality game project.
• Strong portfolio showing lighting, composition, and environment art fundamentals.
• Experience with modern game engines (Unreal, Unity, or proprietary engines).
• Experience with PBR workflows and real-time rendering optimization.
• Ability to collaborate 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 Lighting

Lighting Portfolio

Real-time Rendering

PBR Workflows

Collaboration

Lighting Tools

Tools

Unreal Engine

Unity Engine

Proprietary Engine

Lighting Profiling Tools

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.

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.

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.