Senior Lighting Technical Artist

Cloud Chamber is looking for a Senior Technical Lighting Artist to work collaboratively with a team of artists and engineers to develop and support our lighting team. You will use your deep skills to develop best-practices and workflow automation, and support the production of consistently stylized visuals within a physically based render environment that will make the world of BioShock shine.

 Job Details:

• 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.
• Receive and apply constructive feedback as part of our iterative process effectively while maintaining a positive attitude.
• Work closely with other groups within the studio to achieve cohesive and visually stunning results.
• Maintain the values of Cloud Chamber.

Skills, Experience and Qualifications:

• 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.
• Must be 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.).
• Experience with console development is a plus.
• Experience working with a team of artists towards a common goal.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, organizational, and time management skills. 
• Ability to respond elegantly to difficult creative changes, often …