Senior Lighting Artist lighting environments and optimizing post - process effects for Piranha Games, an action - game studio behind MechWarrior. Collaborating across art and design teams.
About the role
- Senior Level Artist building and optimizing playable Unreal Engine environments for Side’s game co-development projects. Owning spaces from blockout through final polish, including gameplay integration and visual composition.
Responsibilities
- Own game spaces from blockout through final polish, balancing gameplay layout with visual composition, staging, lighting, and world-building
- Create, refine, and integrate pre-generated assets into cohesive, playable game environments
- Make decisions about player flow, composition, sightlines, and navigation
- Build and polish environments in Unreal Engine
- Manage streaming, HLODs, draw calls, frame budgets, and memory budgets to meet performance targets
- Use Unreal PCG and Houdini for world-building and asset placement workflows
- Implement level features, triggers, and interactives using Unreal Blueprints
- Collaborate with design, art, and engineering teams
- Own spaces across multiple development stages through shipped, cancelled, or personal projects
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in level design, level art, or world building
- Portfolio demonstrating composition, staging, lighting, and playable spaces built in-engine
- Deep experience building worlds and spaces in Unreal Engine
- Strong gameplay layout literacy, including player flow, navigation, sightlines, and spatial composition
- Experience owning a space through multiple stages of a development pipeline, including shipped, cancelled, or personal projects
- Proven experience managing and optimizing streaming, HLODs, draw calls, frame budgets, and memory budgets
- Working knowledge of Unreal Blueprints for implementing level features, triggers, and interactives
- Experience with Unreal PCG and Houdini
- Ability to work independently and take ownership of a space from blockout through final polish
- Experience with material and shader authoring
- Experience with terrain tools such as Gaea, World Machine, or equivalent
- Background in architecture, urban planning, or production design
- Experience working on open-world or large-scale streaming worlds
- Experience authoring tools using Python or Blueprints
Benefits
- Competitive Salary
- Dynamic, multicultural and fun environment
- You will be working for the world's leading provider of game services
- Regular progression opportunities to ensure employees flourish
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