Lighting Artist – GameSim

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Mexico.

📋 Description

• Develop high-quality real-time lighting for gameplay settings, levels, cinematics, characters, and interactive sequences.

• Convert art direction, concept art, reference materials, gameplay needs, narrative objectives, and client feedback into effective lighting solutions.

• Utilize lighting to create mood, atmosphere, visual hierarchy, environmental storytelling, and direct player attention.

• Ensure that lighting enhances gameplay clarity, navigation, combat visibility, character presentation, and key interactive elements.

• Innovate and fine-tune exposure, color, contrast, fog, atmosphere, reflections, shadows, emissive responses, color grading, and post-processing.

• Craft lighting for various visual styles, including realistic, stylized, cinematic, and highly art-directed projects.

• Maintain visual consistency across related environments, gameplay areas, sequences, times of day, and lighting conditions.

• Guide assigned scenes from initial lighting setup through to final refinement.

• Address feedback from Art Direction, project leadership, and clients promptly and professionally.

• Ensure that completed work aligns with project standards for quality, performance, organization, and delivery.

⛳️ Requirements

• Professional experience in creating lighting for games, real-time projects, animation, visualization, or a related field.

• A portfolio or reel showcasing strong real-time lighting capabilities.

• Solid grasp of lighting fundamentals, including value, color, contrast, composition, visual hierarchy, atmosphere, exposure, shadow, and material response.

• Experience in lighting gameplay environments or interactive real-time scenes.

• Understanding of how lighting influences mood, gameplay clarity, navigation, environmental storytelling, and player focus.

• Professional experience with Unreal Engine or another modern real-time engine.

• Familiarity with dynamic or baked lighting, global illumination, reflections, volumetrics, exposure, color grading, and post-processing.

• Working knowledge of physically based rendering and material response.

• Understanding of basic lighting optimization, including light cost, shadows, volumetrics, reflections, scalability, and platform limitations.

• Capacity to take ownership of assigned scenes and guide them through review and completion.

• Capability to receive, interpret, and apply artistic and technical feedback.

• Experience in reviewing artwork or providing constructive feedback to colleagues.

• Skill in identifying work that falls short of established quality standards and communicating practical improvements.

• Ability to balance visual quality, technical requirements, production scope, and timelines.

• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.

• Ability to organize priorities, communicate risks, and see work through to completion.

• Experience collaborating with various game-development disciplines.

• Flexibility to adapt to different projects, visual styles, engines, pipelines, platforms, and client expectations.

• Capability to work effectively both independently and as part of a distributed team.

🏝️ Benefits

• Collaborate with dynamic individuals in the gaming industry.

• Grow within a company that offers upward career advancement opportunities.

• Fully remote work environment.

• Comprehensive statutory benefits including social security, 12 days of annual leave, a 30-day Christmas bonus, and a 25% vacation premium.

• Major and minor medical insurance.

• Savings fund.

• Grocery vouchers ($1244.88 MXN).