Senior Machine Learning Engineer

About Us:

Portcast is a venture-backed startup which predicts global trade flows to help logistics and shipping companies become more profitable. We are a predictive analytics company that offers a fast-paced, innovative environment where you will be empowered to sell our AI-product to C-level executives. We are customer-obsessed and are constantly working to provide our customers access to actionable and insightful data to build resilient supply chains.

Based in Singapore, and backed by leading VCs and senior industry advisors, Portcast is a team of young tech and industry talent building a game-changing product for the logistics and shipping industry.

About the role:

We are looking for a Senior Machine Learning Engineer who specializes in deploying ML and AI models into production. You will handle the full lifecycle—from research and model building to deployment and scaling in real-world environments. This hands-on role requires designing robust algorithms that address key business problems, particularly in visibility, prediction, demand forecasting, and freight audit. Your focus will be on ensuring model accuracy, reliability, and scalability in production systems.

What You’ll Do:

• Develop and deploy machine learning models from initial research to production, ensuring scalability and performance in live environments
• Own the end-to-end ML pipeline, including data processing, model development, testing, deployment, and continuous optimization
• Design and implement machine learning algorithms that address key business problems that our product focuses on in visibility, prediction, demand forecasting and freight audit
• Ensure reliable and scalable ML infrastructure, automating deployment and monitoring processes using MLOps best practices
• Perform feature engineering, model tuning, and validation to ensure that models are production-ready and optimized for performance
• Build, test, and deploy real-time prediction models, maintaining version control and performance tracking