Senior Environment Artist

Our office is located in Bellevue, Washington
.

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Environment Artist with deep expertise in large-scale world creation
, set dressing,
terrain generation
, landscape development
, procedural techniques and advanced shader authoring
. This role requires strong artistic vision, technical expertise, and collaboration skills to influence environment art quality and support a team of artists through mentorship and knowledge sharing. The ideal candidate has a deep understanding of composition, lighting, materials, and environmental storytelling, with a proven track record of creating high-quality game environments.

This position is in-office in Bellevue, WA and reports to the Lead Environment Artist.

• 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.

• Reviewing builds with an eye to maintaining a high-quality bar while respecting project or technical requirements.
• Communicating with leadership to align on various topics like art direction and project timelines.
• Creating high-quality game art content.
• Providing constructive feedback to other artists to establish best practices and document workflows.

• High-quality environment art for video games, including examples of realistic work and demonstrated understanding of composition, lighting, and asset pipelines.
• Examples of large-scale environments or open-world scenes.
• Terrain and landscape breakdowns.
• Shader/material examples.
• Wireframes and optimization examples where applicable.
• Breakdown documentation demonstrating your workflow and technical contribution.

• 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 P  workflows, composition, lighting, and environmental storytelling.
• Experience with terrain systems, modular and procedural content workflows.
• 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.

• 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.

• 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…