Senior Lighting Artist (Unreal Engine)

Location: Remote, hybrid, or on-site in Canada; candidates must currently reside in Ontario or be willing to relocate to Ontario.

Salary: $120,000–$150,000 per year.

Company

hirify.global is an independent Toronto-based game development studio creating multiplayer games, including Chivalry 2 and No More Room in Hell 2.

What you will do

• Create and implement realistic lighting for indoor and outdoor game environments.
• Establish lighting moods, visual storytelling, and a consistent realistic art direction.
• Set up dynamic and baked real-time lighting for different times of day, weather conditions, and gameplay scenarios.
• Balance visual quality, gameplay readability, and performance across target platforms.
• Identify and resolve lighting, shadow, exposure, reflection, and visibility issues.
• Collaborate with Environment Artists, Level Designers, Technical Artists, VFX Artists, Programmers, and the Art Director on lighting technology, workflows, reviews, and optimization.

Requirements

• Professional experience as a Lighting Artist in games.
• Experience creating lighting for realistic 3D environments.
• Experience with Unreal Engine.
• Strong understanding of realistic lighting, color theory, composition, exposure, photography, and cinematography.
• Understanding of real-time rendering, PBR materials, reflections, shadows, post-processing, and performance implications.
• Portfolio demonstrating strong environment lighting and realistic visual work, plus the ability to troubleshoot rendering issues independently.

Nice to have

• Experience with multiplayer or large-scale games and large multiplayer maps.
• Experience with Unreal Engine post-process effects, color grading, Lumen, and virtual shadow maps.
• Experience creating dynamic time-of-day and weather lighting systems.
• Experience with profiling and debugging GPU or rendering performance.

Culture & Benefits

• 6.5 weeks of paid vacation.
• Eligibility for the Employee Stock Options Plan.
• Flexible schedule and choice of remote, hybrid, or on-site work.
• Healthcare and benefits plan for employees and their families.
• 100% parental leave top-up for 16 weeks for Canadian employees.