Senior Real-Time Lighting Artist

Keywords Studios Plc; United States; Remote; USD 63,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

3 weeks paid leave

Benefits package including medical, d,

Professional Development

Job summary

GameSim is seeking a Senior Lighting Artist to create high-quality real-time lighting across gameplay environments and cinematics. You will lead lighting tasks, review colleagues, and ensure visual and technical standards meet Art Direction and client expectations.

Collaborate with Art Directors, Environment and Technical Art teams, VFX, Design, Engineers and Producers; own lighting for scenes, mentor juniors, and help optimize pipelines while balancing mood, readability and performance.

Qualifications

• Professional experience creating lighting for real-time games.
• Shipped game or real-time project experience.
• Portfolio demonstrating high-quality real-time lighting.

Responsibilities

• Create high-quality real-time lighting for gameplay environments and cinematics.
• Translate art direction, reference material and gameplay requirements into lighting solutions.
• Maintain lighting consistency across environments and scenes.

Skills

Real-time lighting

Lighting for games

Team mentorship

Gameplay readability

Tools

Unreal Engine 5

Lumen

GPU Lightmass

Photoshop

DaVinci Resolve

Nuke

Maya

Perforce

Jira

Job description

GameSim is seeking a Senior Lighting Artist to create high-quality real-time lighting across gameplay environments and cinematics. You will lead lighting tasks, review colleagues, and ensure visual and technical standards meet Art Direction and client expectations.

Collaborate with Art Directors, Environment and Technical Art teams, VFX, Design, Engineers and Producers; own lighting for scenes, mentor juniors, and help optimize pipelines while balancing mood, readability and performance.