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Lighting Designer

EXP
Glendale, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 1/8/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 2/6/2026
Job Description

Lighting Designer

At EXP, we’re driven to provide innovative solutions for the world’s built and natural environments. As a team of engineers, architects, designers, scientists, creators and a community of professionals, we bring diverse and talented people together to solve the world’s most complex challenges. Here, you join a team that leverages differences, harnesses their entrepreneurial spirit in an employee-owned company, that believes diversity is what gives us strength, seeks sustainable results and shares ambitions for each other, our clients and the communities we are part of and serve. To be a part of EXP means to have your own experience, while staying connected to a global network of professionals, who believe we are a part of something bigger. Together, we are EXP.

Are you ready to design your future?

Be our next Lighting Designer!

Your work environment at EXP

In this role, you will be a part of the Hospitality, Healthcare, and Entertainment Buildings team, of the Buildings Sector, based the Chicago, Orlando, Atlanta or Los Angeles office with a flexible hybrid work environment.

What a day at EXP has in store for you

  • Proficient in the skills of Lighting Designer.
  • Ability to provide creatively successful designs that meet the artistic requirements.
  • Provides fixture specification.
  • Provides custom fixture design and / or selection including hand-drawn sketches.
  • Provides conceptual hand-drawn sketches for early design phase submittals.
  • Presents conceptual design to client and design team along with Associate Lighting Designer.
  • Ability to represent the discipline in creative meetings with design team and clients.
  • Ability to create discipline work plan to meet project scope within discipline budget.
  • Ability to direct and mentor junior Lighting Designer staff.
  • Ability to coordinate with other disciplines.
  • Ability to direct programming staff during commissioning to achieve creative intent.
  • Ability to offer creative problem solving to challenging issues.
  • Ability to travel nationally and internationally as required by project.

What Your Experience Looks Like

  • 5-10 years of professional experience
  • BA, BFA, BAE or MFA with an emphasis in Lighting Design.
  • Associate IALD membership preferred.
  • REVIT MEP and Auto CAD Proficiency required.

The salary range for this role is $80,000 - $95,000. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor. In addition to competitive pay, we offer a comprehensive benefits package for all full-time employees, including health insurance, vacation time, and 401(k) retirement benefits.

About Us

Our story

With a mission to understand, innovate, partner and deliver, EXP provides engineering, architecture, design and consulting services to the world’s built and natural environments.

Our heritage dates back to 1906, when the earliest of EXP’s predecessor companies started its engineering infrastructure practice. Today, thousands of creative professionals across EXP work together to deliver extraordinary experiences year after year.

What Makes Us Different

The passion, enthusiasm, diversity and industry-leading capabilities of our employees make us who we are. We’re committed to providing a challenging work environment that cultivates career growth, encourages creativity and rewards excellence.

Find out more about life at EXP by visiting www.exp.com .

About The Team

EXP is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer who fully and actively supports equal access for all people regardless of Race, Color, Sex, Religion, Gender, Age, National Origin, Veteran Status, Disability, Genetic Information or Testing, Family and Medical Leave, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity or Expression.

Should you need any special accommodations, please feel free to contact us at hrsupport@exp.com and we will arrange for the most suitable accommodations based on your needs.

Salary : $80,000 - $95,000

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