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About the Role

ILM's Interactive team develops original immersive experiences across virtual reality, augmented reality, and location-based platforms, known for blending visuals, sound, and narrative in award-winning projects. The Lighting Artist is responsible for optimizing environments and combining artistic talent with technical ability, working closely with the Department Supervisor of Lighting and development/production teams on lighting setups and pipelines.

Responsibilities

Design lighting setups for environments, characters, and interactive game assets with Art Directors, Lighting Leads, and Concept Artwork.
Apply deep understanding of lightmap baking, dynamic lighting tools, image-based specular lighting, indirect light probes, post-process volumes, and real-time rendering.
Collaborate with environment, character, and VFX artists on lighting design for aesthetics and performance via material shader and geometry work.
Partner with level designers to animate dynamic lighting or transitions using level blueprint or sequencer.
Participate in improving workflows, optimizations, and best practices.
Identify, triage, and fix bugs with engineering and relevant departments.
Polish and optimize final projects to a high degree.

Requirements

Experience with Unreal/Unity or equivalent game engine, including dynamic and baked lighting workflows, physically-based rendering, and basic level blueprint scripting.
In-depth knowledge of real-time shader implementations, VR shader limitations, PBR pipelines, and subsurface shaders.
Experience in developing, authoring, and organizing efficient materials via the UE4 material editor.
Fluency in Windows, JIRA, Perforce, or equivalent OS, workload, and data management tools.
A portfolio/reel submission with a detailed breakdown of work in each section is required.
Strong traditional art, photography, or film studies background.

Skills

Strong aesthetic sense for lighting and color theory.
Strong technical knowledge of current real-time lighting toolsets, including atmospheric effects, post-processing, color grading, and HDR IBL workflows.
Ability to effectively take direction and understand visual aesthetics.
Excellent communication skills.
Strong organization skills.
Problem-solving skills.
Self-motivated.
Proficiency with profiling tools to examine and diagnose performance issues related to lighting.
Experience with Maya.
Experience with Unity.
Experience with Substance Designer / Painter.
Experience with Zbrush or Mudbox.
Experience with Houdini.
Experience with Mari.
Experience with 3D StudioMax.
Experience with Photoshop.
Experience with Nuke.
Interest and capacity to work with proprietary toolsets.

Location

San Francisco, CA, USA

Work Type

Full time

Experience Level

5+ years experience as a Lighting TD/Artist in AAA game development or animation/vfx/film

Salary/Compensations

$103,812 to $132,930 per year

Benefits

Bonus and/or long-term incentive units
Full range of medical benefits
Full range of financial benefits
Other benefits

About the Company

ILM’s Interactive team advances the studio’s legacy of innovation by developing original immersive experiences across virtual reality, augmented reality and location-based platforms.
Known for blending best-in-class visuals, sound and narrative, the team has delivered award-winning projects such as What If…? – An Immersive Story, Vader Immortal: A Star Wars VR Series and the Oscar-winning CARNE y ARENA.
Our work continues to push the boundaries of immersive entertainment and redefine how audiences engage with story.