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Electronic Arts

Lead Lighting Artist

Electronic Arts
hybrid senior full-time Guildford
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First indexed 24 Apr 2026

Description

At Criterion Games, we're looking for a talented Lead Lighting Artist to join our team. As a Lead Lighting Artist, you will be responsible for providing creative and technical solutions to add visual quality to our game while keeping in mind technical performance limits. You will lead a small team of lighting artists and collaborate with other departments and studios to deliver high-quality lighting on time and to specification.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Providing consistent and effective direction and guidance to the lighting team across levels and cinematics
  • Collaborating with other leads in the franchise to ensure pipelines and workflows are up to production standards
  • Specifying and working along with engine, graphics, and tools teams to design and implement workflows, techniques, and approaches to the lighting craft and set visual goals
  • Providing guidance to other team members to work through technical and creative solutions

We're looking for someone with excellent knowledge of lighting, shading, and PBR for real-time applications, including optimization for performance and quality. Experience shipping AAA titles on current-gen consoles is also required. Additionally, knowledge of color grading approaches and a passion for the technical side of real-time lighting are highly desirable.

If you're a motivated and experienced lighting artist looking for a new challenge, please apply!

This listing is enriched and indexed by YubHub. To apply, use the employer's original posting: https://jobs.ea.com/en_US/careers/JobDetail/Lead-Lighting-Artist/212952