Senior Level Artist (Remote Freelance Contract)

Core Responsibilities

You will own game spaces from blockout through final polish, combining gameplay layout, world building, and visual composition. Your tasks include:

• Creating, refining, and integrating pre-generated assets into cohesive, playable game environments.
• Balancing gameplay layout with visual composition, staging, lighting, and world-building.
• Making intentional decisions about player flow, composition, sightlines, and navigation to support gameplay experience.

Unreal Engine & Performance

• Building and polishing environments in Unreal Engine with a strong understanding of composition, lighting, and in-engine presentation.
• Managing streaming, HLODs, draw calls, frame budgets, and memory budgets, optimizing spaces to meet performance targets.
• Utilizing Unreal PCG and Houdini to support efficient world-building and asset placement workflows.

Gameplay Integration

• Implementing level features, triggers, and interactives using Unreal Blueprints.
• Collaborating with design, art, and engineering teams to ensure spaces support both gameplay and visual goals.
• Taking ownership of spaces across multiple stages of development, from initial blockout through final polish.

Requirements

What you'll be doing:

• Own spaces from blockout through final polish, balancing gameplay layout with visual composition, staging, lighting, and world-building.
• Create, refine, and integrate pre-generated assets into cohesive, playable game environments.
• Make intentional decisions about player flow, composition, sightlines, and navigation to support gameplay.

What we're looking for:

• 5+ years of experience in level design, level art, or world building.
• A portfolio demonstrating composition, staging, lighting, and playable spaces built in-engine; portfolios should show environments from a player's perspective.
• Deep experience building worlds and spaces in Unreal Engine, owning both gameplay layout and visual execution.
• Strong gameplay layout literacy, including decisions around player flow, navigation, sightlines, and spatial composition.
• Experience owning a space through multiple stages of a development pipeline, including shipped, cancelled, or personal projects.
• Proven experience managing and optimizing streaming, HLODs, draw calls, frame budgets, and memory budgets.
• Working knowledge of Unreal Blueprints for implementing level features, triggers, and interactives.
• Experience with Unreal PCG and Houdini.
• Ability to work independently and take ownership of a space from blockout through final polish.

Nice to have:

• Experience with material and shader authoring.
• Experience with terrain tools such as Gaea, World Machine, or equivalent.
• Background in architecture, urban planning, or production design.
• Experience working on open-world or large-scale streaming worlds.
• Experience authoring tools using Python or Blueprints.