Lead Hard Surface Artist — Remote/Hybrid (AAA Games)

Keywords Studios Plc; Singapore; Hybrid; SGD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Keywords Studios Plc is expanding in Southeast Asia and seeking an accomplished Principal / Lead Hard Surface Artist to contribute to a new project. The role may be permanent or fixed-term, with remote/hybrid options across APAC regions including Singapore.

You will guide other artists and shape the visual quality for hard surface assets, from vehicles to machinery and architecture. You will mentor teams, optimize workflows, and ensure assets meet real-time performance requirements, working

Qualifications

• Proven track record as a Senior/Principal/Lead Hard Surface Artist on shipped AAA or high-quality game project.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating high-quality hard surface modelling across asset types.
• Excellent knowledge of shape, proportion, materials, construction, and mechanical design.
• Experience with high-poly/low-poly workflows, baking, texturing, and PBR materials.
• Ability to mentor or provide artistic direction to other artists.

Responsibilities

• Creates high-quality hard surface assets meeting artistic and technical requirements.
• Works across assets like vehicles, weapons, machinery, props, architecture, and other mechanical forms.
• Helps establish visual and quality bars for hard surface production.
• Collaborates with Art Direction, Environment Art, Technical Art and Design to ensure assets are visually strong and gameplay-ready.
• Provides hands-on guidance, feedback and mentoring to other artists.
• Develops efficient modelling, texturing and asset creation approaches.
• Ensures assets are optimised for real-time performance and platform requirements.
• Troubleshoots technical and production issues related to hard surface assets and workflows.
• Contributes to visual benchmarks and best practices for hard surface production.

Skills

Hard surface modelling

Mentoring

Collaboration

Real-time optimization

PBR materials

Portfolio showcases

Tools

Unreal Engine

Unity

Scripting (Python, Mel)

Job description

Keywords Studios Plc is expanding in Southeast Asia and seeking an accomplished Principal / Lead Hard Surface Artist to contribute to a new project. The role may be permanent or fixed-term, with remote/hybrid options across APAC regions including Singapore.

You will guide other artists and shape the visual quality for hard surface assets, from vehicles to machinery and architecture. You will mentor teams, optimize workflows, and ensure assets meet real-time performance requirements, working