diff --git a/.buildkite/image_build/image_build.yaml b/.buildkite/image_build/image_build.yaml
index e0ef7d59242..5d6ce7309e8 100644
--- a/.buildkite/image_build/image_build.yaml
+++ b/.buildkite/image_build/image_build.yaml
@@ -98,3 +98,21 @@ steps:
           limit: 2
         - exit_status: -10  # Agent was lost
           limit: 2
+
+  - label: ":docker: Build arm64 image"
+    key: arm64-image-build
+    depends_on: []
+    source_file_dependencies:
+      - ".buildkite/image_build/image_build.yaml"
+      - ".buildkite/image_build/image_build_arm64.sh"
+      - "docker/Dockerfile"
+    commands:
+    - .buildkite/image_build/image_build_arm64.sh $REGISTRY $REPO $BUILDKITE_COMMIT
+    env:
+      DOCKER_BUILDKIT: "1"
+    retry:
+      automatic:
+        - exit_status: -1  # Agent was lost
+          limit: 2
+        - exit_status: -10  # Agent was lost
+          limit: 2
diff --git a/.buildkite/image_build/image_build_arm64.sh b/.buildkite/image_build/image_build_arm64.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000000..5baa55a1965
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.buildkite/image_build/image_build_arm64.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+set -e
+
+if [[ $# -lt 3 ]]; then
+  echo "Usage: $0 <registry> <repo> <commit>"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+REGISTRY=$1
+REPO=$2
+BUILDKITE_COMMIT=$3
+
+# authenticate with AWS ECR
+aws ecr-public get-login-password --region us-east-1 | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin "$REGISTRY" || true
+
+# skip build if image already exists
+if [[ -z $(docker manifest inspect "$REGISTRY"/"$REPO":"$BUILDKITE_COMMIT"-arm64) ]]; then
+  echo "Image not found, proceeding with build..."
+else
+  echo "Image found"
+  exit 0
+fi
+
+# build (Grace/GH200 is the arm64 GPU target; sm_90)
+docker build --file docker/Dockerfile \
+  --platform linux/arm64 \
+  --build-arg max_jobs=16 \
+  --build-arg nvcc_threads=4 \
+  --build-arg torch_cuda_arch_list="9.0" \
+  --build-arg USE_SCCACHE=1 \
+  --build-arg buildkite_commit="$BUILDKITE_COMMIT" \
+  --tag "$REGISTRY"/"$REPO":"$BUILDKITE_COMMIT"-arm64 \
+  --target test \
+  --progress plain .
+
+# push
+docker push "$REGISTRY"/"$REPO":"$BUILDKITE_COMMIT"-arm64
diff --git a/docker/Dockerfile b/docker/Dockerfile
index 47b17fc2d10..06cdc0b667f 100644
--- a/docker/Dockerfile
+++ b/docker/Dockerfile
@@ -868,6 +868,7 @@ FROM vllm-base AS test
 ADD . /vllm-workspace/
 
 ARG PYTHON_VERSION
+ARG TARGETPLATFORM
 
 ARG PIP_INDEX_URL UV_INDEX_URL
 ARG PIP_EXTRA_INDEX_URL UV_EXTRA_INDEX_URL
@@ -907,6 +908,11 @@ RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/opt/uv/cache \
             --extra-index-url ${PYTORCH_CUDA_INDEX_BASE_URL}/nightly/cu$(echo $CUDA_VERSION | cut -d. -f1,2 | tr -d '.'); \
         else \
             echo "Installing dev requirements..." \
+            && if [ "$TARGETPLATFORM" = "linux/arm64" ]; then \
+                echo "Recompiling test requirements for arm64..." \
+                && uv pip compile requirements/test/cuda.in -o requirements/test/cuda.txt --index-strategy unsafe-best-match \
+                --extra-index-url ${PYTORCH_CUDA_INDEX_BASE_URL}/cu$(echo $CUDA_VERSION | cut -d. -f1,2 | tr -d '.'); \
+            fi \
             && uv pip install --system -r requirements/dev.txt \
             --extra-index-url ${PYTORCH_CUDA_INDEX_BASE_URL}/cu$(echo $CUDA_VERSION | cut -d. -f1,2 | tr -d '.'); \
         fi \
diff --git a/requirements/test/cuda.in b/requirements/test/cuda.in
index 1a71e3ee0e4..6c786491603 100644
--- a/requirements/test/cuda.in
+++ b/requirements/test/cuda.in
@@ -53,12 +53,12 @@ tritonclient>=2.51.0
 grpcio==1.78.0
 grpcio-reflection==1.78.0
 
-arctic-inference == 0.1.1 # Required for suffix decoding test
+arctic-inference == 0.1.1; platform_machine == "x86_64" # Required for suffix decoding test
 numba == 0.65.0 # Required for N-gram speculative decoding
 numpy
 runai-model-streamer[s3,gcs,azure]==0.15.7
-fastsafetensors>=0.2.2 # 0.2.2 contains important fixes for multi-GPU mem usage
-instanttensor>=0.1.5
+fastsafetensors>=0.2.2; platform_machine == "x86_64" # 0.2.2 contains important fixes for multi-GPU mem usage
+instanttensor>=0.1.5; platform_machine == "x86_64"
 pydantic>=2.12 # 2.11 leads to error on python 3.13
 decord==0.6.0; platform_machine == "x86_64"
 # terratorch is temporarily disabled while PyPI has the `lightning` package