Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Portcast is hiring a Senior Machine Learning Engineer in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. The details below summarise the employer's own listing; applications happen on the original posting, not on GetFirstJob.

What the work involves

• Portcast is a venture-backed, Singapore-based logistics technology startup helping freight forwarders turn data into better decisions and measurable business impact
• Portcast uses AI to surface shipment exceptions, cost risks, and the right actions, helping teams focus on the shipments that need their attention, keep freight costs under control, and make procurement decisions with confidence
• Our vision is to be the AI data and intelligence layer that powers exception management and margin improvement on every shipment
• Founded in 2018 and backed by leading technology investors, we are building for an industry at a critical inflection point of digital transformation
• Our team of software engineers, data scientists, and logistics experts is on a mission to build the technology that helps freight forwarders protect margin, improve operational efficiency, and differentiate their offering
• This is a hands-on, business-minded role in a lean team: you'll build ML and AI that drives real outcomes for our customers, and make pragmatic calls about cost, scale, and impact, not just model accuracy
• Our models (like predictive ETA) are one part of the picture, not the whole job
• You'll own some products end to end and contribute to others, and you'll help decide what's worth building based on what moves the business
• You'll work closely with our Data, Engineering, and Product teams, turning loosely defined problems, sometimes without clean baseline data, into shipped features
• If you like figuring things out in ambiguity and seeing your work drive the business directly, rather than long research cycles in a big lab, you'll fit well here

What they are looking for

• We're looking for a Senior Machine Learning Engineer who owns solutions end to end, from framing the problem, to building and deploying the model, to running it in production
• Collaborate with Data, Engineering, and Product to understand the business goals behind what you are building, so what you ship actually moves the metrics that matter
• WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR:
• 5+ years building, deploying, and scaling machine learning models in production, with a track record of owning things end to end
• Prior experience in a lean product-based startup environment: a small ML/DS team where everyone wears many hats, with no big R&D lab and no clean specs or baseline data handed to you
• Experience in logistics tech or supply chain tech, ideally building AI-powered intelligence for freight forwarding, is a strong plus
• Experience with real-time data processing, anomaly detection, and time-series forecasting in production
• Experience with large datasets and big data technologies like Spark and Kafka

Pay and dates

The listing does not state pay. The source page shows a relative posting age rather than an exact posting date; this role was first seen and checked as open on 4 November 2026. The source page showed it as posted “2 months ago” when captured; that is a relative stamp, not an exact date.

How to apply

Apply on the listing where the employer published this role: Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Portcast. We found this listing via linkedin.com; it was still open when we checked on 4 November 2026. If the posting has closed or the link fails, the role may have been filled.