We are looking for a Lead Lighting Artist to help shape and deliver world-class real-time lighting across gameplay, cinematics, and key marketing assets. This role sits at the intersection of creativity and technical expertise, using Unreal Engine 5 to create lighting that enhances atmosphere, storytelling, and player experience while meeting performance goals.
Requirements
- Drive Lighting Quality & Vision
- Help define and execute the lighting vision in alignment with the game’s art direction.
- Set and maintain lighting standards and best practices to ensure a consistent, high-quality visual bar.
- Create lighting that supports mood, composition, readability, and emotional impact across a wide range of content.
- Lead lighting for real-time gameplay and in-engine cinematics, ensuring a cohesive visual experience.
- Collaborate with a cross-disciplinary team on the creation of high-end marketing and promotional assets, contributing ideas and helping deliver polished, visually striking results.
- Adapt lighting solutions to work effectively across gameplay and cinematics.
- Act as a go-to expert for UE5 lighting, with hands-on experience using systems such as Lumen, Virtual Shadow Maps, exposure, and post-processing.
- Use UE5’s lighting capabilities to push visual quality while maintaining performance and stability.
- Partner with Technical Art and Engineering to explore new features and improve lighting workflows.
- Build strong working relationships with Engineering teams to develop and refine lighting solutions.
- Take ownership of lighting performance, identifying potential issues early and helping guide effective solutions.
- Contribute to the ongoing improvement of lighting pipelines, tools, and debugging processes.
- Provide clear artistic and technical guidance to lighting artists through reviews, feedback, and hands-on support.
- Help plan and scope lighting work, identify dependencies, and support the team in hitting quality and production goals.
- Be an active advocate for lighting quality and consistency throughout development.
Benefits
- Hangar 13 prides itself on the diversity of its team members, partners, and communities. For this reason, we remain committed to providing equal employment opportunity in all aspects of the employment relationship, from recruitment and hiring through compensation, benefits, discipline and termination.
- Reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities are provided.
- Security notice: Hangar 13 never uses instant messaging apps to contact prospective employees or to conduct interviews.
