diff --git a/bionemo-recipes/models/geneformer/pyproject.toml b/bionemo-recipes/models/geneformer/pyproject.toml
index 2de37ed6b3..168cb7485e 100644
--- a/bionemo-recipes/models/geneformer/pyproject.toml
+++ b/bionemo-recipes/models/geneformer/pyproject.toml
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "nemo_toolkit[lightning]==2.4.0",
     "fiddle",
     "megatron-core",
+    "nvidia-resiliency-ext>=0.6.0",
     "pytest",
     "requests",
     "hydra-core",