**Job Title:** Senior Lighting Artist
About the Role
We are seeking an experienced lighting artist to join our team and play a key role in shaping the look, feel, and emotional tone of our open-world survival crafting game.
Key Responsibilities:
* Define and implement high-quality lighting across environments, scenes, characters, and cinematics in line with the project's art direction and visual style.
* Establish and maintain the game's lighting vision, setting artistic and technical benchmarks for the team.
* Prototype and deliver visual targets, ensuring lighting contributes to gameplay readability, emotional tone, and narrative intent.
* Identify and resolve complex visual challenges both technically and artistically, maintaining aesthetic consistency under real-time constraints.
Requirements
* A portfolio showcasing high-quality examples of lighting a variety of indoor and outdoor environments running in-engine in real-time.
* Proven experience lighting AAA or high-quality game projects.
* Deep understanding of real-time rendering, physically based lighting, and post-processing.
* Proficiency with Unreal Engine (preferred) or similar industry-standard engines.
Benefits
When you join our company, you can look forward to a generous Perks & Benefits package including:
* Private Healthcare, including Dental Plan.
* Minimum 6% Pension contributions.
* Employee Assistance Programme & onsite Counselling.
* Life Insurance.
* Discretionary annual performance bonus.
* Enhanced family leave policies from day 1.
* Flexible working hours.
* 25 days annual leave + Bank holidays & the option to buy/sell holidays.
About Us
We are a leader in developing and publishing deep, engaging online games that connect millions of players worldwide. We strive to foster an inclusive workplace built on trust, autonomy, and a shared passion for creating forever games. Our values guide everything we do:
* We Embrace Fellowship by collaborating and sharing openly.
* We Hone our Craft by always learning and improving.
* We Honour our Vows by being honest and transparent.
* We are our Customers' Heroes by striving to understand our team & player needs.
* We Seize The Day by making the most of every opportunity.