Electronic Arts

Battlefield is a storied franchise renowned for uncompromising combat gameplay for over two decades. 100 million players and 5 billion hours played later, the Battlefield team is looking to define the future of the first-person shooter. United the banner of Battlefield Studios, 4 world-class teams across Criterion, DICE, Motive and Ripple Effect – all powered by the Battlefield Central Technology (BCT) team – have come together to focus on the future of the franchise, a connected Battlefield universe filled with immersive experiences built on our unique DNA.

At Criterion Games we cherish our rich, award-winning, history of crafting quality games with joy and passion. You'll find us playing, creating, breathing, and talking games. As we look to the future, we're excited to continue innovating and being part of building the future of Battlefield. We believe that healthy and engaged teams are the key to building great games, so we place enormous value on collaboration, fresh ideas, and diverse perspectives. Criterion is a place where you can unleash your creativity and be part of something extraordinary. Your unique input is welcome here! We're all-in on the future and our most ambitious Battlefield yet. Want to be part of something special? Read on.

• Experience leading a small team or an appetite to learn this.
• Excellent knowledge of lighting, shading and PBR for realtime applications, including optimisation for performance and quality (e.g. experience using UE4/5, Frostbite, Unity, other game engines).
• Experience shipping AAA titles on current gen5 consoles.
• Experience with reference capture for Lighting, including HDRI capture and calibration workflows and authoring of skydomes.
• Knowledge of colour grading approaches (e.g. DaVinci Resolve).
• A passion for the technical side of realtime lighting.
• A broad interest in aspects of visual art including but not limited to video games (e.g. photography, filmography, painting, etc.).
• Knowledge of image editing or mastering software a bonus (e.g. Phothoshop, Nuke, etc.).
  
  
  You’ll be expected to:
  
  
• Provide consistent and effective direction and guidance to our lighting teams across levels and cinematics, to enable them to deliver high quality lighting on time, to schedule and to specification.
• Help support other leads within the franchise to consider mission critical lighting needs.
• Collaborate with other leads in the franchise to ensure pipelines and workflows are up to production standards.
• Specify and work along with engine, graphics and tools teams to design and implement workflows, techniques and approaches to the lighting craft and set visual goals.
• Provide guidance to other team members to work through technical and creative solutions.
• Communicate progress and raise any issues or proposed solutions with the art directors on the team.
• Proactively use knowledge and experience to identify and solve problems before they affect the development of the project.
• Support the lighting team in providing guidance to the team, developing, mentoring, and enhancing internal skills and capabilities.
• Act as a key point of contact for technical knowledge and expertise within the lighting craft.