Cloud Chamber is hiring a
Senior Lighting Technical Artist

Summary

Cloud Chamber is seeking a Senior Technical Lighting Artist to collaborate with a team on the development of the lighting team, using deep skills to create best practices and workflow automation in Unreal Engine. The role requires 5+ years of experience in AAA games as a technical artist, working knowledge of Lumen and Blueprint, and excellent communication and problem-solving skills.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in 3D AAA games as a technical artist
• Experience as a Senior Technical Artist on one AAA title
• Bachelor’s Degree, or equivalent work experience
• Demonstrated experience working with modern FPS engines and modern art pipelines
• Comfortable taking on responsibility for the development of complex lighting solutions and workflows
• Working knowledge of Lumen and Blueprint
• Experience developing high quality lighting under runtime constraints
• Deep understanding of lighting, color-spaces, HDR, color-theory and PBR
• Skilled with industry standard game-dev tools (Perforce, Visual Studio, JIRA, etc.)

Responsibilities

• Work with the lighting team to create lighting standards, best-practices, and workflows within the Unreal engine that scale to production
• Contribute to a positive, proactive, and agile work environment that encourages innovation and collaboration
• Evaluate performance and help optimize lighting across the entire game
• Develop Blueprints or scripts to help link gameplay and lighting with user-friendly workflows
• Work with the lighting team to automate their workflows and stay within performance guidelines
• Work with the Cinematic, VFX, and Material teams to optimize performance and visual fidelity in real-time scenes
• Implement dynamic lighting and atmospheric systems to meet visual and gameplay needs
• Communicate with a geographically-distributed team using real-time tools as well as through multimedia documentation
• Research and share new techniques and technologies related to PBR lighting and shading with the goal of continuous development and improvement

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with console development is a plus
• Experience working with a team of artists towards a common goal

Benefits

• Base pay offered is based on market location, and may vary further depending on individualized factors for job candidates, such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and other objective business considerations
• Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment
• Employees will also receive 14 paid holidays per calendar year, are eligible to earn a minimum of 15 days of vacation leave per year (subject to proration based on start date during the calendar year) and will receive 10 sick days per calendar year