Lead Lighting Artist (AAA Games)

Location: Helsinki, Finland; permanent full-time onsite position

Company

hirify.global is a Finnish game studio and PlayStation Studios member developing visually ambitious AAA games such as Returnal and Saros.

What you will do

• Lead and mentor the lighting team while planning, assigning, and reviewing work.
• Define best practices, workflows, and artistic and technical targets for real-time lighting.
• Create lighting content for levels and cinematics while maintaining consistent visual quality across the project.
• Collaborate with art, technical art, graphics programming, production, QA, and external development teams.
• Troubleshoot rendering and performance issues and optimize lighting within performance and memory budgets.
• Provide artistic and technical feedback, conduct performance appraisals, and support career growth.

Requirements

• At least one shipped PC or console title as a Lead Lighting Artist.
• 8+ years of AAA game development experience for PC and/or console.
• Expert knowledge of real-time lighting, physically based rendering, and node-based lighting shaders.
• Understanding of lighting scripts, gameplay and storytelling requirements, aesthetics, color theory, and composition.
• Experience with version control and project management tools such as Perforce and Jira.
• Fluent written and verbal English; relocation to and work from Helsinki, Finland are required.

Nice to have

• Experience with Unreal Engine or a proprietary AAA engine.
• Experience in cinematic lighting or photography.
• Experience with global illumination and ray tracing systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive salary, benefits, and healthcare.
• Nordic work-life balance with time and means for personal and professional development during work hours.
• Tailored immigration and relocation package for settling in Finland.
• State-of-the-art studio facilities in central Helsinki.
• Flexible, open, collaborative, inclusive, and empathetic work environment.
• Access to PlayStation Studios collaboration, games, tools, and projects.