Hire Whisper Engineers

Contract, freelance or full-time — fine-tuning, deployment, API integration, inference cost optimization. Tell us what you're building and we'll put it in front of engineers in our audience who have shipped it.

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A focused audience

Readers here already work in ASR and Whisper — not a general job-board crowd.

The right specifics

Tell us the actual problem — quantization, streaming, medical fine-tuning — and we target accordingly.

Simple terms

Free to post. If you hire someone through us, we agree a placement fee up front.

Hardware-Software Co-Design

If your role needs kernel optimization and CUDA streams — making Whisper run several times faster at lower cost — say so in the brief and we'll target engineers with that background.

Fine-Tuning Expertise

Adapting Whisper for medical or legal domains is a common ask — note the domain and target WER in the brief.

Typical Whisper engagements

Rough shapes and budgets for the contract work people most often come to us for. Useful if you're scoping a brief or sanity-checking a quote.

Proof of Concept

1–2 weeks · $5K–$10K

  • Whisper deployed against your own sample audio
  • Accuracy benchmarked versus whatever you use today
  • Cost modelling at production volume
  • A written recommendation, including "don't build this"

Production Deployment

4–6 weeks · $20K–$40K

  • Batched inference behind a real API
  • Containerized and orchestrated
  • Monitoring, logging and failure alerting
  • Load tested at your expected peak

Domain Fine-Tuning

3–4 weeks · $15K–$25K

  • Dataset preparation from your existing audio
  • Fine-tuning Whisper Medium or Large
  • Evaluation on a held-out set you agree up front
  • Deployment of the adapted model

Cost Optimization

2–3 weeks · $10K–$18K

  • Quantization to INT8 or FP16
  • Batching and GPU utilization improvements
  • Silence gating so you stop paying to transcribe nothing
  • Typically 50–80% off the inference bill

Not sure whether you need a contractor or a hire? Our guide on how to hire a Whisper engineer walks through contract versus in-house versus agency.

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Free to post. We reply by email, usually within a couple of business days.