Senior Environment Artist

Responsibilities

• Create and own large-scale environments from block out through final polish.
• Design and develop realistic terrains, biomes, landscapes, and natural ecosystems.
• Build modular environment kits and world-building pipelines for massive open worlds.
• Support complex environment art efforts and serve as a subject matter expert for large scale world creation, mentor a team of artists, providing quality bar-setting examples, constructive feedback and fostering professional growth.
• Work closely with Art Directors, Leads, Designers, and Technical Artists to ensure visual consistency and technical feasibility.
• Develop and refine environmental storytelling techniques to create immersive game worlds.
• Contribute to the development and evolution of environment art workflows, tools, and best practices that improve quality, efficiency, and scalability.
• Identify production challenges, technical limitations, and content creation bottlenecks, collaborating with cross-functional teams to develop effective solutions.
• Optimize assets for performance and memory constraints while maintaining high visual fidelity.
• Support in managing art production pipelines to ensure deadlines and quality expectations are met.
• Work with engineers and level designers to ensure seamless asset integration into the game engine.
• Stay up to date with industry trends and push the boundaries of game environment art.

Qualifications

• 5-8+ years of experience as an environment artist in the video game industry with at least 2 shipped titles.
• Strong leadership and mentorship skills, with experience guiding and supporting a team of artists.
• Proficiency in industry tools such as Blender, Substance Suite, Zbrush and Photoshop.
• Deep knowledge of landscape creation tools, such as Houdini, World Machine, Gaea etc.
• Deep knowledge in the creation and analysis of pixel shaders.
• Experience using photo scan data as well as satellite imagery.
• Experience with Unreal Engine, including material and pixel shader creation.
• Deep understanding of PBR workflows, composition, lighting, and environmental storytelling.
• Experience with terrain systems, modular and procedural content workflows.
• Vegetation content creation.
• Strong understanding of real-world architecture, set dressing and infrastructure.
• Ability to balance artistic vision with technical constraints for optimized performance.
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work collaboratively across teams.
• Excellent English written and verbal communication ability.

Personal Attributes

• Proactive, self-motivated, and able to work independently.
• Passion for video games and interactive entertainment.
• Strong desire to learn and stay updated with the latest industry trends and technologies.

What we offer

• A highly competitive total compensation package
• Comprehensive employer funded healthcare – ensuring you pay nothing out of pocket for in-network medical care
• Employer-paid premiums for dental, vision, short & long-term disability, life insurance, and AD&D insurance
• Generous benefits include 20 days PTO, 12 paid holidays and a studio-wide holiday break annually
• Ample sick leave days annually to prioritize your well-being
• Health & wellness, video game, and continuing education reimbursements
• Industry-leading family planning and fertility care benefits, including gender-affirming care, through Carrot Fertility
• Enjoy meal reimbursements, and snacks and beverages for in office staff
• 401K with a company match for your financial well-being
• Option to work remotely 1 day a week