Senior Lighting Artist (Call of Duty)

Location: Middleton, Wisconsin, United States; onsite work is required four days per week

Salary: $82,240–$152,160 annual base pay, plus potential incentive compensation.

Company

hirify.global is a game development studio contributing to the Call of Duty franchise, including Call of Duty: Warzone and Black Ops campaigns.

What you will do

• Develop and implement real-time lighting for gameplay, environments, play spaces, and cinematics.
• Apply volumetrics, color grading, post-processing, and image effects to achieve visual and narrative goals.
• Own lighting work from initial pass through final polish while meeting AAA visual and technical quality targets.
• Collaborate with lighting, art, design, programming, production, and other disciplines on scope, execution, performance, and quality.
• Contribute to lighting research and development, tool and process improvements, and production best practices.
• Mentor artists, provide constructive feedback, and contribute creative ideas that improve environments and cinematics.

Requirements

• 8+ years of lighting experience in real-time game development or equivalent film and television experience.
• Expert experience with Unreal, Unity, or equivalent proprietary game engines and lighting tools.
• Strong experience with baked and dynamic lighting, light probes, reflection probes, post-processing, color grading, and image adjustment tools.
• Strong understanding of PBR workflows, physically correct lighting, color theory, and post-processing techniques.
• Ability to manage lighting tasks independently, adapt to proprietary tools, solve problems, and collaborate effectively.
• Reel demonstrating realistic lighting, modern development workflows, and creative solutions to development challenges.

Nice to have

• Experience with Call of Duty tools or other proprietary engines.
• Background in environments, animation, VFX, compositing, procedural workflows, or Houdini.
• Basic scripting experience and familiarity with performance optimization for console and PC.
• Strong traditional art foundation and passion for the Call of Duty franchise.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, respectful, direct-communication culture with an emphasis on accountability and continuous improvement.
• Medical, dental, vision, health savings or reimbursement accounts, insurance, and disability coverage.
• 401(k) with company match, tuition reimbursement, and charitable donation matching.
• Paid holidays and vacation, sick time, floating holidays, parental leave, and bereavement leave.
• Mental health and wellbeing programs, fitness programs, and free or discounted games.
• Relocation assistance may be available when the company requires geographic relocation for the role.