diff --git a/src/pyproject.toml b/src/pyproject.toml
index 4d2704f9469..7e3db40c898 100644
--- a/src/pyproject.toml
+++ b/src/pyproject.toml
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ requires = [
     'memory_allocator',
     'numpy >=1.19',
     'pkgconfig',
+    'jinja2',
 ]
 build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"