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GameSim is a game development studio that partners with clients to build games across PC/console and a range of art styles. We care about craftsmanship, collaboration, and shipping work we?re proud to put our names on. If you love building environments and believable spaces we?d like to meet you. Our headquarters is based in Orlando, FL! Talent Pipeline Posting Notice Please note that this posting is not tied to an immediate vacancy. We are proactively building a pipeline of qualified candidates in anticipation of potential hiring needs over the coming months. Applications will be reviewed and retained for future consideration as opportunities arise. We are seeking a Principal Environment Artist to help define and elevate the quality, efficiency, and consistency of environment-art production across GameSim projects. This is a high level senior individual-contributor position for an experienced artist who can operate at both the strategic and hands-on levels. You will create benchmark-quality work, establish practical production standards, solve complex artistic and technical problems, and provide direction to environment teams working across different projects, engines, styles, and partner studios. You will work closely with Art Directors, project leads, Technical Art, Production, Design, Engineering, clients, and partner studios to translate creative goals into clear and achievable environment-art strategies. This role requires strong leadership, sound judgment, clear communication, and the ability to influence teams through expertise, example, and collaboration. What Success Looks Like Within your first 90 days, you will: Develop a strong understanding of GameSim?s projects, clients, production structure, and environment-art capabilities. Build trust with artists, project leadership, clients, and partner studios through clear communication and reliable decision-making. Create or guide the development of benchmark work that establishes a clear visual and technical quality bar. Identify a meaningful artistic, technical, or workflow challenge and help implement a practical improvement. Provide feedback and mentorship that improves the quality, consistency, and effectiveness of the environment team. Responsibilities Artistic Leadership and Execution Create high-quality real-time environments, architecture, modular kits, hero assets, materials, terrain, foliage, and world-building content. Produce benchmark assets and scenes that communicate expectations for composition, scale, visual hierarchy, material quality, environmental storytelling, and final polish. Translate art direction, concept art, reference material, design requirements, and client feedback into clear production goals. Establish environment-art strategies for modular construction, asset reuse, trim sheets, material systems, terrain, foliage, set dressing, and world building. Maintain a strong hands-on contribution when establishing quality bars, validating workflows, solving difficult problems, or supporting critical deliverables. Evaluate environment artwork objectively and provide specific, actionable feedback through reviews, paintovers, blockouts, reference boards, documentation, or in-engine examples. Production and Pipeline Development Partner with Art Direction, Production, and T