# Lead Lighting Artist

**Company**: Electronic Arts
**Location**: Guildford
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Ticker**: EA
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q173941

**Apply**: https://jobs.ea.com/en_US/careers/JobDetail/Lead-Lighting-Artist/212952
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## 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!

## Skills

### Required
- Lighting
- Shading
- PBR
- Real-time applications
- Optimization for performance and quality
- Color grading approaches

### Nice to have
- Image editing or mastering software
- Photography
- Filmography
- Painting