# Principal Environment Artist - GameSim - Pipeline **Company**: GameSim **Work arrangement**: remote **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Category**: Design **Industry**: Technology **Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15070342 **Apply**: https://apply.workable.com/j/B6B7686113?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_d1a8419d-d55 ## Description GameSim is seeking a Principal Environment Artist to help define and elevate the quality, efficiency, and consistency of environment-art production across GameSim projects. This is a high-level senior individual-contributor position for an experienced artist who can operate at both the strategic and hands-on levels. You will create benchmark-quality work, establish practical production standards, solve complex artistic and technical problems, and provide direction to environment teams working across different projects, engines, styles, and partner studios. **What Success Looks Like** Within your first 90 days, you will: - Develop a strong understanding of GameSim's projects, clients, production structure, and environment-art capabilities. - Build trust with artists, project leadership, clients, and partner studios through clear communication and reliable decision-making. - Create or guide the development of benchmark work that establishes a clear visual and technical quality bar. - Identify a meaningful artistic, technical, or workflow challenge and help implement a practical improvement. - Provide feedback and mentorship that improves the quality, consistency, and effectiveness of the environment team. **Responsibilities** ### Artistic Leadership and Execution - Create high-quality real-time environments, architecture, modular kits, hero assets, materials, terrain, foliage, and world-building content. - Produce benchmark assets and scenes that communicate expectations for composition, scale, visual hierarchy, material quality, environmental storytelling, and final polish. - Translate art direction, concept art, reference material, design requirements, and client feedback into clear production goals. - Establish environment-art strategies for modular construction, asset reuse, trim sheets, material systems, terrain, foliage, set dressing, and world building. - Maintain a strong hands-on contribution when establishing quality bars, validating workflows, solving difficult problems, or supporting critical deliverables. - Evaluate environment artwork objectively and provide specific, actionable feedback through reviews, paintovers, blockouts, reference boards, documentation, or in-engine examples. ### Production and Pipeline Development - Partner with Art Direction, Production, and Technical Art to define environment workflows that balance visual quality, scope, schedule, and technical requirements. - Identify artistic, technical, and production risks early and recommend practical solutions. - Help teams break down broad or incomplete direction into understandable tasks, milestones, priorities, and acceptance criteria. - Improve environment-art pipelines through reusable workflows, templates, documentation, example assets, and production standards. - Support planning and estimation by evaluating asset complexity, dependencies, staffing needs, and production risks. - Troubleshoot challenging issues related to asset construction, materials, world building, optimization, engine implementation, or content integration. - Help ensure environments meet project requirements for performance, memory, streaming, draw calls, shader complexity, collision, LODs, and platform limitations. ### Team and Project Influence - Guide environment artists across internal teams, partner studios, and external development groups. - Mentor senior artists and emerging leads in artistic judgment, communication, planning, review practices, and decision-making. - Collaborate with Art Directors to maintain a consistent visual direction across teams and deliverables. - Participate in client meetings, milestone reviews, art reviews, and project-planning discussions when senior environment-art representation is needed. - Communicate risks, tradeoffs, priorities, and recommendations clearly to artistic and non-artistic stakeholders. - Help align teams working across different studios, disciplines, cultures, and time zones. - Support prototypes, art tests, project pitches, preproduction efforts, and early pipeline development. - Contribute to the continued growth of GameSim's environment-art discipline through mentorship, hiring support, portfolio reviews, documentation, and capability planning. **Requirements** - Extensive professional experience in game development, real-time production, or a closely related field. - Multiple shipped games or comparable professional real-time projects. - A portfolio demonstrating exceptional environment-art quality and strong production judgment. - Expert understanding of composition, scale, proportion, visual hierarchy, shape language, material definition, lighting response, environmental storytelling, and scene cohesion. - Advanced experience creating modular environments, architecture, props, terrain, materials, and reusable asset systems. - Strong understanding of modeling, UVs, baking, texel density, trim sheets, tileable materials, decals, vertex blending, and real-time material workflows. - Professional experience developing environments in Unreal Engine or another modern real-time engine. - Strong understanding of environment optimization, including LODs, memory, streaming, draw calls, collision, shader complexity, and platform constraints. - Experience establishing visual benchmarks, environment pipelines, asset standards, or production workflows. - Demonstrated ability to solve complex artistic, technical, and production problems with limited supervision. - Experience guiding senior artists, leads, distributed teams, external partners, or vendors. - Ability to provide clear, constructive, and actionable artistic feedback. - Strong understanding of how to balance quality, scope, schedule, technical requirements, and available resources. - Strong written, verbal, presentation, and interpersonal communication skills. - Experience collaborating with Art Direction, Production, Technical Art, Design, Engineering, Lighting, VFX, and other development disciplines. - Ability to adapt to different projects, visual styles, engines, pipelines, and client expectations. - Comfort participating in client-facing discussions and representing environment-art decisions professionally. **Tools and Technical Experience** Candidates should have advanced experience with a professional environment-art toolset. This may include: - Maya, Blender, 3ds Max, or a comparable 3D content-creation package - ZBrush or an equivalent sculpting application - Substance 3D Painter and Substance 3D Designer - Photoshop or comparable image-editing software - Unreal Engine 5 or another modern real-time engine - Perforce or another production source-control system - Jira, Confluence, Miro, or comparable planning and documentation tools **Preferred Qualifications** - Experience working in co-development, outsourcing, consulting, or work-for-hire game production. - Experience contributing to AAA PC or console titles. - Experience working across both realistic and stylized visual pipelines. - Experience supporting multiple projects or teams at a studio or discipline level. - Experience owning a level, biome, world region, or major environment feature from early planning through final delivery. - Experience with Unreal Engine systems such as World Partition, Nanite, virtual texturing, procedural content generation, landscape tools, material functions, Blueprints, or profiling tools. - Houdini experience involving procedural modeling, terrain generation, scattering, modular construction, or artist-facing tools. - Experience with foliage workflows, SpeedTree, photogrammetry, procedural generation, or organic-environment production. - Experience with lighting and post-processing sufficient to establish visual targets and diagnose presentation issues. - Familiarity with Python, editor scripting, automation, or technical-art tool development. - Experience contributing to project scoping, staffing recommendations, bidding, hiring, or portfolio evaluation. ## Skills ### Required - Unreal Engine - Maya - Blender - 3ds Max - ZBrush - Substance 3D Painter - Substance 3D Designer - Photoshop - Perforce - Jira - Confluence - Miro ### Nice to have - Houdini - Python - editor scripting - automation - technical-art tool development - SpeedTree - photogrammetry - procedural generation - organic-environment production --- Source: [Apply at apply.workable.com](https://apply.workable.com/j/B6B7686113?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)