Senior Lighting Artist

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States, +1 more country.

📋 Description

• Take ownership and implement the lighting vision for BulletFarm's upcoming AAA title.

• Design and execute high-quality real-time lighting for gameplay environments, cinematics, and scripted scenarios.

• Manage the lighting process from initial look development to final in-engine refinement.

• Set up lighting standards, workflows, documentation, and best practices.

• Work in-depth with Unreal Engine 5's Lumen Global Illumination and reflection systems.

• Utilize MegaLights and modern UE5 lighting technologies to create visually ambitious and performant scenes.

• Convert the project's visual direction into engaging lighting across diverse environments and aesthetic worlds.

• Employ lighting techniques to set the mood, enhance environmental storytelling, guide player attention, and improve gameplay visibility.

• Collaborate closely with Environment Art, Technical Art, Design, and Engineering teams.

• Analyze and optimize lighting to achieve visual and performance goals across all supported platforms.

• Diagnose lighting, shadowing, exposure, reflection, and performance challenges in Unreal Engine 5.

• Contribute to environment art production by creating, modifying, dressing, and optimizing environment assets.

• Develop scalable lighting and environment-content workflows in alignment with project and team growth.

• Review externally produced content and offer feedback based on visual and technical standards.

⛳️ Requirements

• 6+ years of experience as a Lighting Artist or in a comparable role on one or more released AAA or AA titles.

• Expert-level skills in Unreal Engine 5 lighting workflows.

• Profound knowledge of Lumen, including Global Illumination, reflections, performance aspects, and troubleshooting techniques.

• Practical experience with MegaLights or advanced next-gen real-time lighting systems and workflows.

• Strong grasp of real-time lighting principles, such as composition, color, value, exposure, shadow, contrast, and visual hierarchy.

• Proven ability to create atmospheric lighting that supports both artistic direction and gameplay clarity.

• Solid understanding of lighting optimization and its impact on real-time performance.

• Experience in collaborating with Environment Art, Technical Art, Design, and Engineering teams.

• Capability to independently execute established visual direction at a high-quality standard.

• Strong artistic eye and a portfolio showcasing outstanding real-time lighting work.

• Willingness to contribute beyond a narrowly defined lighting role as production needs dictate.

• Preferred: proficiency in Maya, Blender, ZBrush, Substance Painter, Substance Designer, or similar tools.

• Preferred: experience with modular environment workflows, materials, set dressing, and world-building techniques.

• Preferred: experience with MegaLights in a production or advanced development setting.

• Preferred: experience lighting horror, action, grounded dark fantasy, or similarly atmospheric genres.

• Preferred: experience with cinematics and the Unreal Engine Sequencer.

• Preferred: familiarity with Nanite, Virtual Shadow Maps, material systems, and other modern Unreal Engine 5 rendering technologies.

• Preferred: experience optimizing lighting and environment content for current-generation consoles and high-end PCs.

• Preferred: experience working with external development or outsourcing partners.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive base salary.

• Health, dental, and vision benefits.

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage.

• 401(k) plan.

• Flexible paid time off policy.

• Remote-first work environment from anywhere in the US or Canada.

• Opportunity to impact studio operations, values, and game development decisions.