Multimedia Artist creating digital artwork, video, animations, and visual effects for Extreme Networks’ cloud - driven networking campaigns. Collaborating with Extreme’s Brand team on internal and external visual content.
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- Senior Lighting Artist shaping atmospheric, gameplay-driven lighting for BulletFarm's next AAA title. Building performant Unreal Engine 5 environments with Lumen and MegaLights.
Responsibilities
- 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
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