Senior Remote Environment Artist (Unreal)

Stone Kite; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical vision dental

Generous PTO

Winter break

401k Options

Monthly meals stipend

Learning opportunities

Early-stage, innovative team

Job summary

Stone Kite is a world-building studio seeking an experienced Environment Artist to lead realtime environments in Unreal Engine for flagship projects. You will own scene assembly, lighting, and environmental storytelling while shaping workflows for a growing team.

You will collaborate with the Art Director and cross‑discipline teams, contribute to pipeline standards, and bring a portfolio of shipped environments to a remote setup in the United States.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional realtime environment art experience in AA-AAA games.
• Multiple shipped titles as an environment artist.
• Strong understanding of full environment production pipelines, from blockout to final implementation.
• Deep familiarity with Unreal Engine workflows and material/shader tooling.
• Experience with modular environment construction.
• Familiarity with Houdini is a plus.
• Strong understanding of lighting, composition, color, and spatial storytelling.
• Experience optimizing scenes for performance and memory constraints.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating shipped or production-quality realtime environments.
• Comfortable wearing multiple hats and self-directing in a small team.

Responsibilities

• Create high-quality realtime environments in Unreal Engine.
• Build modular environment palette, shaders, and textures.
• Own scene assembly, composition, lighting, and environmental storytelling.
• Collaborate with art direction to establish visual identity.
• Develop scalable workflows for a small team that will grow.
• Optimize environments for performance while maintaining high fidelity.
• Work across palette creation, set dressing, lighting, and post-processing to craft the final frame.
• Help define technical standards for environment production in Unreal.
• Collaborate with level designer to support gameplay.
• Build and own asset pipelines for the team.
• Participate in team brainstorming, playtests, and feedback sessions.
• Provide feedback for teams across media.
• Partner with Art Director on future staffing and outsourcing.

Skills

Realtime environment art

Unreal Engine

Pipelines ownership

Collaboration

Lighting & composition

Asset pipelines

Modular environment construction

Houdini

Optimization

Portfolio of shipped environments

Tools

Unreal Engine

Houdini

Job description

Stone Kite is a world-building studio seeking an experienced Environment Artist to lead realtime environments in Unreal Engine for flagship projects. You will own scene assembly, lighting, and environmental storytelling while shaping workflows for a growing team.

You will collaborate with the Art Director and cross‑discipline teams, contribute to pipeline standards, and bring a portfolio of shipped environments to a remote setup in the United States.