Senior Lighting Artist / Technical Director - Expression of Interest - ILM San Francisco
Core
Senior Lighting Artist / Technical Director responsible for defining lighting tools, setups, and pipelines for immersive VR/AR environments and interactive game assets.
Role type
Senior IC Lighting Artist / Technical Director
Builds
Immersive VR/AR experiences and interactive game assets
Domain
Virtual Reality / Augmented Reality / Game Development
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work
Required skills
Real-time lighting toolsets, lightmap baking, dynamic lighting, image-based specular lighting, indirect light probes, post-process volumes, raytracing, physically-based rendering (PBR), shader implementation, material authoring, level blueprint scripting, performance profiling
Preferred skills
Traditional art/photography/film background, VR/AR VFX pipeline experience, proprietary toolset familiarity
Technologies
Unreal Engine, Unity, UE4 Material Editor, Maya, Houdini, Substance Designer, Photoshop, JIRA, Perforce
Responsibilities
Define and direct lighting tools and setups for environments and characters; Partner with artists to achieve aesthetic and performance targets; Optimize workflows and fix bugs; Take final projects to high polish and optimization
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
