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Senior Technical Artist – Lighting Pipeline
Mob EntertainmentSenior Technical Artist managing lighting pipeline and bridging teams at Mob Entertainment. Working on the acclaimed Poppy Playtime franchise with an emphasis on the technical aspects of art and lighting.
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesJenkinsPythonUnreal Engine
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Own the UE5 lighting and bake pipeline end-to-end: configuration, distributed bake workflows, lightmap UV tooling, and bake validation
- Build and maintain Python and Unreal Editor tooling that automates lighting and environment tasks and integrates with our Perforce and Jenkins infrastructure
- Partner with DevOps to wire bakes and validation into Jenkins and surface pipeline telemetry
- Diagnose and fix bake failures, lightmap artifacts, and performance regressions
- Profile and optimize lighting cost across PC and console using Unreal Insights, RenderDoc, and stat commands
- Maintain technical documentation and debugging guides that let environment artists self-serve
- Act as the technical escalation point for lighting and bake-pipeline issues across the studio
Requirements
What you’ll need- 7+ years of games industry experience with at least two shipped titles, with significant time in a Technical Artist role
- Deep working knowledge of UE5 lighting and bake pipelines — what's supported, what's deprecated, and how to ship confined indoor environments
- Strong Python skills including the Unreal Python API
- Hands-on profiling and optimization experience using Unreal Insights, RenderDoc, and GPU profilers
- Comfortable in Perforce-based UE5 projects with stream workflows
- Experience integrating Unreal workflows with Jenkins or similar CI
- Strong communication skills in a remote-first studio; this role is half technical work, half bridging two cultures.
Benefits
Comp & perks- Mob Entertainment is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion or religious creed, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, marital status, family or parental status, disability, military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by law.
- We offer competitive salaries and opportunities for career growth.
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Hard Skills & Tools
UE5 lighting pipelinebake pipelinePythonUnreal Python APIprofilingoptimizationlightmap UV toolingbake validationdebuggingperformance regression
Soft Skills
strong communicationtechnical escalationcollaborationproblem-solving