Lighting-Focused Environment Artist for AAA Games (Remote)

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 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