Senior Environment Artist (Game Art)

Location: Fully in-office in Bellevue, Washington, United States

Salary: $103,000–$155,000 per year

Company

hirify.global’s PUBG Studios Seattle is a game development team creating large-scale, immersive worlds for PUBG and other interactive entertainment experiences.

What you will do

• Design realistic natural ecosystems, landscapes, and large-scale game environments from blockout through final polish.
• Build modular environment kits and world-building pipelines for massive open worlds.
• Establish and maintain environment art direction in collaboration with Art Directors, Leads, Designers, and Technical Artists.
• Develop environmental storytelling, materials, lighting, foliage, and other assets that support immersive game worlds.
• Optimize assets for performance and memory constraints and integrate them with engineers and level designers in the game engine.
• Mentor artists, set quality standards, improve workflows, and help resolve production and content-creation bottlenecks.

Requirements

• 5–8+ years of experience as an environment artist in the video game industry and at least two shipped titles.
• Strong experience creating realistic environments, natural landscapes, ecosystems, large-scale terrain, modular content, and procedural workflows.
• Recent experience with Unreal Engine 4 or 5, including material and pixel shader creation and analysis.
• Proficiency with Blender, Substance Suite, ZBrush, and Photoshop.
• Deep understanding of PBR workflows, composition, lighting, environmental storytelling, foliage, real-world architecture, set dressing, and infrastructure.
• Strong communication, problem-solving, leadership, and mentorship skills, with excellent written and verbal English.

Nice to have

• Portfolio examples of realistic game environments, natural landscapes, ecosystems, shaders, materials, wireframes, optimization, and workflow breakdowns.
• Experience using phot scan data and satellite imagery.
• Experience owning or leading large areas of map or level production.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, cross-disciplinary environment focused on quality, creativity, storytelling, and visual artistry.
• Employer-funded healthcare with no out-of-pocket cost for in-network medical care, plus dental, vision, disability, life, and AD&D insurance.
• 20 days of PTO, 12 paid holidays, an annual studio-wide holiday break, and sick leave.
• Health and wellness, video game, and continuing education reimbursements.
• Family planning, fertility, and gender-affirming care benefits through Carrot Fertility.
• Meal reimbursements, snacks and beverages for in-office staff, and a 401(k) with company match.