Lighting Artist - GameSim - Talent Pipeline

Keywords Intl1; New Orleans (LA); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

GameSim, a game development studio, seeks a Lighting Artist to craft high-quality real-time lighting for gameplay environments across PC/console projects. You will translate art direction and reference material into lighting solutions that support mood, readability, and storytelling.

You will collaborate with Art Directors, Environment Artists, Technical Artists, VFX, Designers, and Engineers to ensure scenes meet visual and technical quality standards, with opportunities to take on project

Responsibilities

• Create high-quality real-time lighting for gameplay environments, levels, cinematics, characters, and interactive sequences.
• Translate art direction, concept art, reference material, gameplay requirements, narrative goals, and client feedback into effective lighting solutions.
• Use lighting to establish mood, atmosphere, visual hierarchy, environmental storytelling, and player focus.
• Ensure lighting supports gameplay readability, navigation, combat visibility, character presentation, and important interactive elements.
• Develop and refine exposure, color, contrast, fog, atmosphere, reflections, shadows, emissive response, color grading, and post-processing.
• Create lighting for a range of visual styles, including realistic, stylized, cinematic

Job description

GameSim is a game development studio that partners with clients to build games across PC/console and a range of art styles. We care about craftsmanship, collaboration, and shipping work we’re proud to put our names on. If you love building environments and believable spaces we’d like to meet you. Our headquarters is based in Orlando, FL!

Talent Pipeline Posting Notice
Please note that this posting is not tied to an immediate vacancy. We are proactively building a pipeline of qualified candidates in anticipation of potential hiring needs over the coming months. Applications will be reviewed and retained for future consideration as opportunities arise.

We are seeking a Lighting Artist to create high-quality real-time lighting and help support the execution of lighting work across GameSim projects.

This is a hands-on production role with opportunities to take on project-level leadership responsibilities. In addition to completing assigned lighting work, you may help coordinate tasks, review the work of other artists, provide constructive feedback, and ensure scenes meet the visual and technical quality bar established by Art Direction and the client.

You will collaborate with Art Directors, Environment Artists, Technical Artists, VFX Artists, Designers, Engineers, Producers, clients, and partner studios to translate creative direction into lighting solutions that support mood, gameplay readability, environmental storytelling, and performance.

What Success Looks Like

Within your first 90 days, you will:

• Develop a clear understanding of the project’s visual direction, lighting pipeline, gameplay requirements, technical constraints, and production schedule.
• Build effective working relationships with Art Direction, Production, Technical Art, Environment Art, Design, and other project disciplines.
• Create polished lighting work that meets the project’s established visual and technical quality bar.
• Take ownership of lighting for assigned scenes, environments, sequences, or gameplay areas.
• Provide useful feedback and support to other artists when asked to review or coordinate lighting work.
• Identify artistic, technical, or production risks early and communicate them to the appropriate project leads.
• Deliver assigned work on schedule and respond effectively to internal and client feedback.

Responsibilities

Lighting Creation and Execution

• Create high-quality real-time lighting for gameplay environments, levels, cinematics, characters, and interactive sequences.
• Translate art direction, concept art, reference material, gameplay requirements, narrative goals, and client feedback into effective lighting solutions.
• Use lighting to establish mood, atmosphere, visual hierarchy, environmental storytelling, and player focus.
• Ensure lighting supports gameplay readability, navigation, combat visibility, character presentation, and important interactive elements.
• Develop and refine exposure, color, contrast, fog, atmosphere, reflections, shadows, emissive response, color grading, and post-processing.
• Create lighting for a range of visual styles, including realistic, stylized, cinematic