Senior Technical Artist – Lighting Pipeline

Mob Entertainment is the indie studio behind Poppy Playtime, the horror puzzle franchise beloved by millions worldwide. We build worlds defined by atmosphere, tension, and visual craft — and the technical infrastructure behind that craft matters as much as the art itself.

We're hiring a Senior Technical Artist to own the lighting pipeline for Poppy Playtime. This role lives at the intersection of Environment Art and DevOps — you'll bridge those teams, building tools and workflows that let artists move faster while plugging cleanly into our build, source control, and automation infrastructure.

• →Own the UE5 lighting and bake pipeline end-to-end: configuration, distributed bake workflows, lightmap UV tooling, and bake validation
• →Build and maintain Python and Unreal Editor tooling that automates lighting and environment tasks and integrates with our Perforce and Jenkins infrastructure
• →Partner with DevOps to wire bakes and validation into Jenkins and surface pipeline telemetry
• →Diagnose and fix bake failures, lightmap artifacts, and performance regressions
• →Profile and optimize lighting cost across PC and console using Unreal Insights, RenderDoc, and stat commands
• →Maintain technical documentation and debugging guides that let environment artists self-serve
• →Act as the technical escalation point for lighting and bake-pipeline issues across the studio

• 7+ years of games industry experience with at least two shipped titles, with significant time in a Technical Artist role
• Deep working knowledge of UE5 lighting and bake pipelines — what's supported, what's deprecated, and how to ship confined indoor environments
• Strong Python skills including the Unreal Python API
• Hands-on profiling and optimization experience using Unreal Insights, RenderDoc, and GPU profilers
• Comfortable in Perforce-based UE5 projects with stream workflows
• Experience integrating Unreal workflows with Jenkins or similar CI
• Strong communication skills in a remote-first studio; this role is half technical work, half bridging two cultures

• Background in Environment Art transitioning into TA, or vice versa
• Experience writing Unreal commandlets or custom build steps
• Render programming or shader authoring background (HLSL, Material Editor)
• Familiarity with the Poppy Playtime universe and its visual language
• Knowledge of color management and LUT pipelines
• Passion for the horror genre and atmospheric storytelling

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