Remote Senior Environment Artist — Stylized Real-Time

Impleo; United States; Remote; USD 50,000 - 84,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Competitive compensation

Flexible contract options

Annual team retreats

Job summary

Impleo is partnering with an international game development team to hire a Senior Environment Artist (Stylized Games | Real‑Time). This fully remote role based in Ireland involves transforming concepts into production‑ready environments with a cohesive visual identity.

You will own the environment from concept to final in‑engine implementation, collaborating with Art Directors, Level Designers, and Technical Artists to ensure optimized, readable gameplay and immersive storytelling.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of professional experience as an Environment Artist in game development.
• An outstanding portfolio demonstrating strong environment composition, visual storytelling, atmosphere, and artistic quality.
• Strong 3D modeling, UV mapping, texturing, and material creation skills.
• Experience with Blender, Maya, Substance 3D tools, or equivalent.
• Experience with Unity3D, Unreal Engine, or comparable real‑time game engines.
• Strong knowledge of real‑time optimization and visual hierarchy.
• Fluency in English.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of environment creation from initial concepts to final in-engine implementation.
• Create high‑quality stylized environments including architecture, terrain, props, foliage, and other assets.
• Translate concepts into production‑ready environments with strong composition, color, shape language, and atmosphere.
• Design cohesive spaces to guide exploration and support environmental storytelling.
• Develop modular asset sets and reusable environment systems for consistency and efficiency.
• Build and optimize assets through modeling, UV mapping, texturing, materials, and LODs.
• Work with materials, shaders, lighting, and set dressing to meet real‑time performance goals.
• Collaborate with Level Designers to support gameplay flow and readability.
• Identify and resolve artistic and technical issues in the game engine.
• Partner with Art Directors and Concept Artists to maintain quality standards.

Skills

5+ years experience

Stylized environment portfolio

Modular asset system design

3D modeling and texturing

Blender/Maya/Substance 3D

Real-time engines (Unity/Unreal)

English fluency

Tools

Blender

Maya

Substance 3D

Unity

Unreal Engine

Job description

Impleo is partnering with an international game development team to hire a Senior Environment Artist (Stylized Games | Real‑Time). This fully remote role based in Ireland involves transforming concepts into production‑ready environments with a cohesive visual identity.

You will own the environment from concept to final in‑engine implementation, collaborating with Art Directors, Level Designers, and Technical Artists to ensure optimized, readable gameplay and immersive storytelling.