Lighting Artist (Game Art)

TL;DR

Lighting Artist (Game Art): Crafting and tweaking light sources to achieve the desired mood and atmosphere across a variety of environmental archetypes, optimizing for performance, and ensuring high visual quality. Focus on working with level designers and environmental artists to guide players and highlight key areas, ensuring visual consistency.

Location: Not available to California residents

Salary: $70k to $80k per year

Company

hirify.global is the largest outsourcing art studio in North America, producing work at the forefront of modern game production and contributing to AAA titles.

What you will do

• Craft and tweak light sources to achieve the desired mood, tone, and atmosphere.
• Set up lighting rigs, manage light bakes, and handle volumetric lighting.
• Work with level designers and environmental artists to guide players and ensure visual consistency.
• Identify project needs and effectively communicate those needs to your lead and managers.
• Apply color grading, bloom, and other screen-space effects to enhance the final look.
• Ensure high visual quality within the technical constraints of the target hardware.

Requirements

• A strong portfolio/demo reel showcasing proficiency in lighting for video games.
• 2+ years of professional experience working as a Lighting Artist in the video game industry.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of lighting pipelines outside of Unreal Engine and Unity.
• Experience with Maya, Houdini and Unreal Engine

Culture & Benefits

• Work alongside dynamic individuals in the gaming industry.
• Work within a company with upward career growth opportunities.
• Work Fully Remote
• Full Time Employment Benefits for applicants located in US only include: Medical, Dental, Vision benefits, Voluntary Long-term / Short-term Disability, 401K w/ company match