Lead Environment Artist (Remote/Hybrid) - AAA-Quality Environments

Keywords Studios Plc; Kuala Lumpur; Hybrid; MYR 283,000 - 445,000; Full time

Job summary

Keywords Studios is seeking a Lead Environment Artist to join our Southeast Asia team on an exciting, new project. The role may be permanent or fixed-term, with locations in Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam (Remote), or Singapore (on-site).

Sponsorship is not offered. You will lead environment art, guide artists, and collaborate across disciplines to deliver visually strong and performant environments using Unreal or other engines.

Qualifications

• Senior or Lead Environment Artist on a shipped AAA or high‑quality game project.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating environment art fundamentals and production experience.
• Strong understanding of modular environment workflows, textures, materials, and PBR pipelines.
• Proficiency with modern game engines such as Unreal, Unity, or proprietary engines.

Responsibilities

• Creates high-quality environment art and sets the visual and quality bar for the team.
• Builds, iterates, and optimises environments that support gameplay, narrative and art direction.
• Works with Art Direction, Level Design and Technical Art to develop strong, performant environments.
• Provides hands-on guidance and mentoring to Environment Artists.
• Helps define modular and kit-based approaches to environment production.
• Reviews and improves environment assets, materials and scenes for quality and consistency.
• Troubleshoots performance, technical and production issues within the environment art pipeline.
• Contributes to visual benchmarks and establishes effective environment art workflows.
• Supports planning and estimation while remaining engaged in asset and environment production.

Skills

Environment Art

Mentoring

Modular Workflows

Unreal Engine

Asset Optimization

Portfolio

Collaboration

Job description

Keywords Studios is seeking a Lead Environment Artist to join our Southeast Asia team on an exciting, new project. The role may be permanent or fixed-term, with locations in Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam (Remote), or Singapore (on-site).

Sponsorship is not offered. You will lead environment art, guide artists, and collaborate across disciplines to deliver visually strong and performant environments using Unreal or other engines.