Lighting Artist

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Lighting Artist at GameSim developing high-quality real-time lighting for games across various projects. Collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to enhance gameplay through effective lighting solutions.

Posted 7/17/2026full-timeRemote • Alabama, Arizona, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Wisconsin • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $70,000 - $80,000 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in creating high-quality real-time lighting for gameplay environments and interactive sequences, with a strong understanding of lighting fundamentals and the ability to adapt to various visual styles and project requirements. Proficient in using Unreal Engine and implementing feedback to ensure visual consistency and quality across projects.

Highest-signal resume keywords

Real-Time Lighting CreationUnreal Engine ProficiencyLighting Fundamentals UnderstandingDynamic Lighting ExperienceVisual Consistency Maintenance

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Hard Skills

Lighting FundamentalsDynamic LightingBaked LightingGlobal IlluminationColor GradingPost-ProcessingPhysically Based RenderingLighting OptimizationExposure ManagementMaterial Response

Soft Skills

Interpersonal CommunicationFeedback ImplementationOrganizational SkillsCollaborationAdaptability

Tools & Technologies

Unreal EngineReal-Time Engines

Industry Keywords

Game DevelopmentEnvironmental StorytellingVisual HierarchyCinematic LightingArt Direction

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Unreal Engine

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Create high-quality real-time lighting for gameplay environments, levels, cinematics, characters, and interactive sequences.
Translate art direction, concept art, reference material, gameplay requirements, narrative goals, and client feedback into effective lighting solutions.
Use lighting to establish mood, atmosphere, visual hierarchy, environmental storytelling, and player focus.
Ensure lighting supports gameplay readability, navigation, combat visibility, character presentation, and important interactive elements.
Develop and refine exposure, color, contrast, fog, atmosphere, reflections, shadows, emissive response, color grading, and post-processing.
Create lighting for a range of visual styles, including realistic, stylized, cinematic, and highly art-directed projects.
Maintain visual consistency across related environments, gameplay spaces, sequences, times of day, and lighting conditions.
Bring assigned scenes from initial lighting setup through final polish.
Respond to feedback from Art Direction, project leadership, and clients in a timely and professional manner.
Ensure completed work meets project requirements for quality, performance, organization, and delivery.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Professional experience creating lighting for games, real-time projects, animation, visualization, or a closely related field.
A portfolio or reel demonstrating strong real-time lighting work.
Strong understanding of lighting fundamentals, including value, color, contrast, composition, visual hierarchy, atmosphere, exposure, shadow, and material response.
Experience lighting gameplay environments or interactive real-time scenes.
Understanding of how lighting supports mood, gameplay readability, navigation, environmental storytelling, and player focus.
Professional experience using Unreal Engine or another modern real-time engine.
Experience 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 constraints.
Ability to take ownership of assigned scenes and follow them through review and completion.
Ability to receive, interpret, and implement artistic and technical feedback.
Experience reviewing artwork or providing constructive feedback to teammates.
Ability to identify work that does not meet an established quality target and communicate practical improvements.
Ability to balance visual quality, technical requirements, production scope, and schedule.
Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
Ability to organize priorities, communicate risks, and follow work through to completion.
Experience collaborating with multiple game-development disciplines.
Ability to adapt to different projects, visual styles, engines, pipelines, platforms, and client expectations.
Ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a distributed team.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Opportunity to work on different projects
3 weeks of accrued paid time off
Benefits package including medical, dental and vision
Sick Leave
Disability Coverage
Corporate holidays
401(k) Retirement Plan with company matching
Professional Development
Snacks, drinks, ping pong, and more!