Environment Artist (Lighting) – AAA Games, Remote

Keywords Studios; Singapore; Remote; SGD 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Keywords Studios is seeking an Environment Artist (Lighting Focus) to join our APAC team. You will create high-quality environment art with a strong emphasis on lighting, mood, and atmosphere, supporting gameplay and narrative direction.

Collaborating with art direction, level design, and tech art, you will iterate lighting setups, maintain lighting passes, and optimize for real-time performance. Applicants should have shipped AAA experience and a strong lighting portfolio.

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

AAA experience

Portfolio

Unreal Engine

Unity

PBR workflows

Scripting

Tools

Unreal Engine

Unity

Proprietary engine

Job description

Keywords Studios is seeking an Environment Artist (Lighting Focus) to join our APAC team. You will create high-quality environment art with a strong emphasis on lighting, mood, and atmosphere, supporting gameplay and narrative direction.

Collaborating with art direction, level design, and tech art, you will iterate lighting setups, maintain lighting passes, and optimize for real-time performance. Applicants should have shipped AAA experience and a strong lighting portfolio.