Senior Lighting Artist

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🕒 August 24

🌐 United States, Canada – Remote

🇺🇸 United States – Remote 🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 $130k - $150k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

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BulletFarm

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11 - 50 employees

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📋 Description

• Own and execute the lighting vision for BulletFarm's next AAA title • Create and implement high-quality real-time lighting across gameplay environments, cinematics, and scripted experiences • Own lighting execution from initial look development through final in-engine polish • Establish lighting standards, workflows, documentation, and best practices • Work extensively with Unreal Engine 5's Lumen Global Illumination and reflection systems • Leverage MegaLights and modern UE5 lighting technologies to build visually ambitious, performant scenes • Translate the project's visual direction into compelling lighting across multiple environments and world aesthetics • Use lighting to establish atmosphere, reinforce environmental storytelling, direct player attention, and support gameplay readability • Collaborate with Environment Art, Technical Art, Design, and Engineering • Profile and optimize lighting to meet visual and performance targets across supported platforms • Troubleshoot lighting, shadowing, exposure, reflection, and performance issues in Unreal Engine 5 • Contribute to environment art production by creating, modifying, dressing, and optimizing environment assets • Establish scalable lighting and environment-content workflows as the project and team grow • Review externally produced content and provide feedback against visual and technical standards

🎯 Requirements

• 6+ years of experience as a Lighting Artist or equivalent role on one or more shipped AAA or AA titles • Expert-level proficiency with Unreal Engine 5 lighting workflows • Deep expertise with Lumen, including Global Illumination, reflections, performance considerations, and troubleshooting • Hands-on experience with MegaLights or advanced next-generation real-time lighting systems and workflows • Strong understanding of real-time lighting fundamentals, including composition, color, value, exposure, shadow, contrast, and visual hierarchy • Demonstrated ability to create atmospheric lighting supporting artistic direction and gameplay readability • Strong understanding of lighting optimization and real-time lighting performance implications • Experience collaborating with Environment Art, Technical Art, Design, and Engineering • Ability to independently execute established visual direction to a high quality level • Strong artistic eye and portfolio demonstrating exceptional real-time lighting work • Comfortable contributing outside a narrowly defined lighting discipline when production needs require it • Preferred: proficiency with Maya, Blender, ZBrush, Substance Painter, Substance Designer, or equivalent • Preferred: experience with modular environment workflows, materials, set dressing, and world-building • Preferred: experience with MegaLights in production or advanced development • Preferred: experience lighting horror, action, grounded dark fantasy, or similarly atmospheric titles • Preferred: experience with cinematics and 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 PC • Preferred: experience working with external development or outsourcing partners

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive base salary • Health, dental, and vision benefits • Medical, dental, and vision insurance • 401(k) • Flexible paid time off • Remote-first work from anywhere in the US or Canada • Opportunity to influence studio operations, values, and game development decisions