Lead Lighting Artist · Electronic Arts

Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:14:39 GMT
Engineering

Electronic Arts · Guildford · hybrid

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!