Senior Lighting Artist (GameDev)

Location: Bielsko-Biała, Poland; fully remote, with a required time zone difference of no more than +/- 2 hours from GMT+1.

Salary: 17,400–23,000 PLN gross per month.

Company

Fool’s Theory is a game development studio creating story-driven games, including Seven: The Days Long Gone and The Thaumaturge.

What you will do

• Create dramatic and compelling lighting for photorealistic rendering.
• Use lighting to establish depth, layering, environmental storytelling, and support for characters and narrative.
• Deconstruct lighting and textures in a physically based renderer to establish accurate color values.
• Maintain a consistent artistic style in line with the game’s visual direction.
• Collaborate with designers, programmers, and technical artists.
• Complete lighting deliverables on schedule and maintain documentation supporting asset production and rendering standards.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience as a Lighting Artist in the gaming industry.
• Experience with AAA game production.
• Excellent knowledge of lighting tools, pipelines, direct and indirect light, luminance, color theory, and composition.
• Solid understanding of the technical and performance limitations of real-time lighting.
• Ability to work independently, meet deadlines, maintain quality, and collaborate effectively.
• Fluent English and no use of generative AI tools to produce imagery for this job.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with Lumen and Unreal Engine 5 lighting workflows.
• Experience with custom game engines.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on an expansion for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt in cooperation with CD PROJEKT RED.
• Flexible working hours with core hours from 10:00 to 16:00.
• English language lessons and support for training courses, conferences, and industry fairs.
• Private medical insurance, access to the MyBenefit platform, and co-financing for a Multisport Card.
• Psychological support, custom tools, and collaboration with experienced game development specialists.

Hiring process

• The company usually responds within two weeks.