Senior AAA Environment Artist | Hybrid Onsite

Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Japan); Santa Monica (CA); Hybrid; USD 95,000 - 118,000; Full time

Job summary

Naughty Dog is seeking a Senior Environment Artist to create and optimize game environments. You will define complex looks with strong color and composition while collaborating across departments to push visual quality and performance.

Expect to work on AAA titles with a focus on efficient textures, UV layouts, and material creation. The role requires hands-on proficiency with Maya, Substance Painter, and ZBrush, plus a strong portfolio demonstrating high-quality environments and shader work.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience modeling high quality environments, with at least one AAA title shipped.
• Ability to define complex looks for challenging levels with minimal art direction.
• Expert understanding of building environments in AAA game development.
• Collaborative mindset with cross-department teams to improve the game.
• Strong art sensibilities in color, composition, and scale.
• Self-motivated to execute the level vision to completion on schedule.
• Proficient at sculpting/painting surface details and shader features for many materials.
• Solid shader construction using material editors for PBR environments.
• Ability to create efficient UV layouts and bake textures from high-res meshes.
• Strong ability to create tiling/trim texture sets and manage texture memory.
• Team player, open to feedback and proactive in sharing assets and information.
• Able to meet schedules, be flexible and proactive in adapting to project needs.
• Proficiency with Maya, Substance, ZBrush, or equivalent software.

Responsibilities

• Create and apply materials across a variety of subject matter.
• Troubleshoot and maintain levels to stay within frame rate, memory, and design specs.
• Act as point of contact to achieve design and art direction goals for building game art.

Skills

Env modeling

Shader/Materials

Art direction collaboration

Color/composition/scale

Time management

Texture baking/UVs

Maya

Substance

ZBrush

Tools

Maya

Substance

ZBrush

Job description

Naughty Dog is seeking a Senior Environment Artist to create and optimize game environments. You will define complex looks with strong color and composition while collaborating across departments to push visual quality and performance.

Expect to work on AAA titles with a focus on efficient textures, UV layouts, and material creation. The role requires hands-on proficiency with Maya, Substance Painter, and ZBrush, plus a strong portfolio demonstrating high-quality environments and shader work.