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Senior External Development Lighting Artist - Remote

Senior External Development Lighting Artist - Remote

Senior Remote Montreal, Canada Full-time Posted 3 months ago

Skills & stack

Skills

Lighting Art Unreal Engine

About the role

People Can Fly is hiring a Senior External Development Lighting Artist for a remote position based in Montreal, Canada. You will manage external partners and lighting quality, with an emphasis on visual consistency, mood and narrative.

Work format

This is a full-time position. Strong spoken and written English communication skills are required.

Skills and tools

Unreal Engine
Jira

What to prepare

Select lighting samples that show environmental depth, mood and gameplay readability in Unreal Engine.
Prepare a walkthrough of lightmap generation, baked lighting and performance optimization from your work.
Bring an example of documentation or feedback you used to guide external lighting contributors.

Responsibilities

Document external partner workflows and define technical benchmarks for lighting standards.
Review partner submissions, provide aesthetic and technical feedback, and verify fixes through production tracking.
Audit internal scenes and external deliverables against style guides and engine performance budgets.
Build atmospheric lighting with level designers, VFX artists and cinematic teams to support gameplay and cut-scenes.
Design light objects and IES textures to support scene aesthetics.
Identify performance bottlenecks and work with technical art and engineering teams to resolve lighting issues.

Requirements

Lighting Art proficiency and Unreal Engine skills, with a critical eye for environmental depth.
Experience creating lighting assets, including textures, IES profiles, HDR maps, materials and scripts.
Experience generating lightmaps and baked lighting, plus knowledge of current console performance capabilities.
Ability to coordinate communication across time zones and distributed external teams.
Collaboration skills across art, design and programming disciplines.

Nice to have

Experience contributing to a shipped video game title.

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Product

Publicly listed Polish video game developer and one of the leading Unreal Engine studios, operating from Warsaw with additional teams in the UK and North America.

Location: Warsaw, Poland
Team size: 201-500
Remote policy: Hybrid

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