[Hiring] Senior Lighting Artist @Blackbird Interactive

Role Description

Work under the direction of Art Leadership to maintain artistic consistency through lighting standards and workflows as well as adhere to established IP’s aesthetic guidelines.

• Take ownership of lighting direction in collaboration with Art Leadership to establish a strong, cinematic atmosphere and great composition.
• Use proprietary engine’s built in lighting tools to produce stunning, cinematic lighting schemes for a range of environments.
• Optimize lighting setups, shadows, post-processing, and related systems for real-time performance.
• Troubleshoot and resolve lighting, rendering, and visual clarity issues while maintaining artistic intent.
• Create and maintain documentation for lighting workflows, standards, and best practices.
• Mentor an intermediate Lighting Artist in the production pipeline and provide actionable creative feedback.

Qualifications

• 5+ Years of professional experience lighting environments and scenes in a video game production pipeline.
• Strong understanding of lighting theory, color space, exposure and physically based natural lighting.
• Insight into cinematography and dramaturgy, scene blocking and lighting to set different moods.
• Deep understanding of real-time rendering principles and physically based rendering (PBR) workflows.
• Experience working with post-processing, exposure, atmospheric effects, and lighting optimization techniques.
• Ability to balance artistic quality with technical and gameplay requirements.
• Familiarity with modern game art pipelines and collaboration across multidisciplinary teams.
• Highly detail oriented, technically inclined with strong communication skills and a collaborative, team-oriented mindset.

Requirements

• Passion for grounded, immersive science fiction.
• Experience with proprietary engines.
• Knowledge of performance profiling and optimization related to lighting and rendering.
• Previous cinematic lighting experience.

Benefits

• $90,000 - $110,000 a year.