At a Glance
- Tasks: Create stunning lighting for immersive environments and enhance gameplay experiences.
- Company: Join nDreams, a leading studio in immersive VR game development.
- Benefits: Enjoy flexible hours, duvet days, birthday off, and personal development support.
- Other info: Fully remote role with a focus on diversity, wellbeing, and career growth.
- Why this job: Shape the visual tone of exciting projects and collaborate with talented teams.
- Qualifications: 4+ years in lighting for games, expertise in Unreal or Unity, strong portfolio required.
The predicted salary is between 50000 - 70000 £ per year.
We’re looking for a highly skilled and creative Senior Lighting Artist to join our team and help define the visual tone and atmosphere of our projects. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced artist to take ownership of lighting pipelines, contribute to visual storytelling, and collaborate across disciplines to deliver stunning, immersive environments.
As a Senior Lighting Artist, you’ll play a key role in shaping the mood and readability of our worlds, using lighting to enhance gameplay, guide the player, and support narrative beats. You’ll work closely with art direction, environment teams, and technical artists.
- 12 month fixed term contract
- Full time (37.5 hours per week)
- Fully remote within the UK
Responsibilities:
- Design and implement high-quality lighting across environments, characters, and cinematics.
- Collaborate with art direction to define and maintain the visual tone of the project.
- Work closely with environment and level design teams to ensure lighting enhances gameplay and readability.
- Optimize lighting for performance across platforms while maintaining visual quality.
- Develop and maintain lighting workflows and documentation.
- Troubleshoot and resolve lighting-related issues in engine.
- Provide feedback and mentorship to junior and mid-level artists.
Requirements:
- 4+ years of professional experience in lighting for games or real-time applications.
- Demonstrates expertise in lighting tools and techniques within game engines such as Unreal or Unity.
- Strong understanding of lighting theory, colour, composition, and mood.
- Experienced in optimising lighting for performance across platforms.
- Solid grasp of PBR workflows, post-processing, and real-time rendering.
- Can work independently and take ownership of lighting across large scenes.
- Portfolio that showcases exceptional lighting work in real-time environments.
Preferred:
- Experience with cinematic lighting or cutscene workflows.
- Familiarity with shader development or technical art pipelines.
We are nDreams – we develop and publish the world’s most immersive VR games. With humble beginnings as an independent studio, we combine amazing projects and considerable scale with a personal, caring touch. We believe the best workplaces and games are created by diverse, happy and safe teams. We're committed to building a culture centred on respect, wellbeing and balance. It's crucial we make our games and industry more accessible to underrepresented communities. We offer great perks, including flexible hours, duvet days, your birthday off, dedicated personal development time and support, as well as regular socials. Beyond this, there’s an excellent holiday offering, pension scheme, health insurance, life cover and much more.
