Senior Lighting Artist (Unreal Engine)

Location: Remote, based in Canada; remote, hybrid, or on-site work options are available.

Salary: CAD 120,000–150,000 annual salary, with potential for higher compensation based on exceptional expertise.

Company

hirify.global is listing this role on behalf of a partner company developing a high-quality multiplayer game.

What you will do

• Create and implement realistic lighting for indoor and outdoor 3D game environments.
• Develop dynamic and baked real-time lighting for different times of day, weather conditions, environments, and gameplay situations.
• Balance visual fidelity, realism, gameplay readability, and performance across multiplayer target platforms.
• Identify and resolve issues involving lighting, shadows, exposure, reflections, visibility, and rendering.
• Collaborate with environment artists, level designers, technical artists, VFX artists, programmers, and art leadership.
• Establish lighting workflows, best practices, documentation, and production standards.

Requirements

• Professional experience as a Lighting Artist in the game development industry.
• Experience creating lighting for realistic 3D environments and a portfolio demonstrating strong environment lighting work.
• Strong knowledge of realistic lighting, color theory, composition, exposure, photography, and cinematography.
• Professional experience with Unreal Engine and a solid understanding of real-time rendering performance implications.
• Knowledge of PBR, materials, reflections, shadows, and post-processing.
• Strong troubleshooting, artistic, communication, and multidisciplinary collaboration skills.

Nice to have

• Experience lighting multiplayer or large-scale games.
• Experience with Unreal Engine post-processing, color grading, Lumen, and Virtual Shadow Maps.
• Experience with dynamic time-of-day and weather lighting systems.
• Knowledge of optimization, GPU profiling, and rendering performance debugging for large multiplayer maps.

Culture & Benefits

• 6.5 weeks of paid vacation.
• Eligibility for an Employee Stock Options Plan.
• Flexible schedule and work location options.
• Healthcare and benefits coverage for employees and their families.
• 100% parental leave top-up for 16 weeks for eligible Canadian employees.
• Inclusive workplace with accommodations available throughout recruitment.

Hiring process

• hirify.global uses an AI-powered matching process to review applications against the role's core requirements.
• Selected candidates are shortlisted and shared with the hiring company, which manages interviews, assessments, and final decisions.