Lead Environment Artist (Unreal Engine 5)

Location: Kraków, Poland — hybrid work with 3 days from the office and 2 days from home. Relocation support is available for candidates willing to move to Kraków.

Company

hirify.global is an experienced game development studio creating titles for PC and consoles, including RoboCop: Rogue City, Terminator: Resistance, and RENNSPORT.

What you will do

• Lead the visual development of regions, biomes, locations, architecture, materials, composition, and interactive elements in Unreal Engine 5.
• Manage, mentor, assign tasks to, and review the work of the Environment Art team and remote artists.
• Collaborate with Level Design to transform whiteboxes into gameplay-focused, navigable, readable final locations.
• Plan production with the Producer, including estimation, prioritization, scheduling, and progress tracking.
• Develop scalable Environment Art pipelines, tools, workflows, and technical solutions with Technical Art.
• Ensure assets meet performance, memory, and streaming budgets while supporting systems such as dynamic weather, day-night cycles, destruction, and environmental interactions.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of professional Environment Art experience on commercial PC or console games, with a portfolio.
• Lead or Senior Artist experience involving coordination, feedback, and mentoring, plus at least one shipped AA or AAA title.
• Excellent Unreal Engine 5 knowledge and practical experience creating and finalizing locations directly in the engine.
• Strong understanding of realistic environment creation, modular production, asset libraries, variation, open-world workflows, composition, lighting, and environmental storytelling.
• Experience with UE5 large-world systems including Streaming, Data Layers, Landscape, Foliage, and Lumen; proficiency with Blender, Substance 3D Painter, and ZBrush.
• Fluency in Polish and English is required.

Nice to have

• Experience with open-world, survival, action, FPP, or TPP games.
• Knowledge of procedural tools such as PCG or Houdini.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on a modern action-survival game for PC and consoles using modern technologies such as Unreal Engine 5.
• Collaborative, creative, and open-minded team with opportunities to influence the game.
• Modern office, gaming equipment, and infrastructure.
• Flexible working hours with start times between 8:00 and 10:00, plus a 40-minute lunch break included in working time.
• Private Luxmed healthcare, Multisport membership, study discounts, company library, referral bonus, and game-success bonus.
• No crunch in many years.

Hiring process

• Only selected candidates will be contacted.