Lead Lighting Artist — Real-Time AAA Lighting, Remote

Game Companies; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Keywords Studios is seeking an accomplished Lead Lighting Artist to join our Southeast Asia team on an exciting, new project. Location options include Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam (Remote), or Singapore (on‑site).

The role offers permanent or fixed‑term contract paths depending on project needs. You will create high‑quality real‑time lighting, mentor junior artists, and collaborate with Art Direction, Environment Art, and Level Design to ensure lighting supports narrative, mood, and gameplay

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Senior or Lead Lighting Artist on a shipped AAA or high-quality game project.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating lighting, composition, mood, and atmosphere.
• Strong understanding of lighting theory, colour, exposure, and real-time rendering.
• Proficiency with modern game engines such as Unreal, Unity, or proprietary engines.
• Good understanding of PBR workflows and how materials respond under different lighting conditions.
• Experience optimising lighting for real‑time performance.
• Experience mentoring or providing artistic guidance to other artists.
• Ability to work collaboratively across disciplines and iterate quickly based on feedback.

Responsibilities

• Creates high-quality lighting that supports gameplay, narrative, mood, and artistic direction.
• Helps establish the visual and quality bar for lighting across the project.
• Builds, iterates, and optimises lighting setups for real-time environments and gameplay.
• Works closely with Art Direction, Environment Art, Level Design, and Technical Art to ensure lighting supports composition, atmosphere, and gameplay readability.
• Provides hands‑on guidance, feedback, and mentoring to other artists working on lighting.
• Develops and maintains lighting passes, post‑processing setups, and related environment settings.
• Troubleshoots lighting issues related to performance, consistency, and technical constraints across platforms.
• Contributes to visual benchmarks and helps establish effective lighting workflows and best practices.
• Supports planning and estimation while remaining actively involved in lighting production.

Skills

Senior Lighting Artist

Real-time lighting

Unreal Engine

Unity Engine

Mentoring

Cross-disciplinary collaboration

PBR workflows

Lighting optimization

Tools

Unreal Engine

Unity Engine

Proprietary engine

Job description

Keywords Studios is seeking an accomplished Lead Lighting Artist to join our Southeast Asia team on an exciting, new project. Location options include Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam (Remote), or Singapore (on‑site).

The role offers permanent or fixed‑term contract paths depending on project needs. You will create high‑quality real‑time lighting, mentor junior artists, and collaborate with Art Direction, Environment Art, and Level Design to ensure lighting supports narrative, mood, and gameplay