diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 406ab2c823..dbf195d6a8 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ requires = [
     "setuptools-scm>=8.0",
     "wheel",
     "jinja2",
+    "torch",
 ]
 build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"