diff --git a/src/install/install.zig b/src/install/install.zig
index e9e3e1d2c1..860e91b02a 100644
--- a/src/install/install.zig
+++ b/src/install/install.zig
@@ -10178,6 +10178,17 @@ pub const PackageManager = struct {
 
         this_transpiler.env.map.put("PATH", PATH.items) catch unreachable;
 
+        // Run node-gyp jobs in parallel.
+        // https://github.com/nodejs/node-gyp/blob/7d883b5cf4c26e76065201f85b0be36d5ebdcc0e/lib/build.js#L150-L184
+        const thread_count = bun.getThreadCount();
+        if (thread_count > 2) {
+            if (!this_transpiler.env.has("JOBS")) {
+                var int_buf: [10]u8 = undefined;
+                const jobs_str = std.fmt.bufPrint(&int_buf, "{d}", .{thread_count}) catch unreachable;
+                this_transpiler.env.map.putAllocValue(bun.default_allocator, "JOBS", jobs_str) catch unreachable;
+            }
+        }
+
         const envp = try this_transpiler.env.map.createNullDelimitedEnvMap(this.allocator);
         try this_transpiler.env.map.put("PATH", original_path);
         PATH.deinit();
diff --git a/test/internal/ban-words.test.ts b/test/internal/ban-words.test.ts
index 3ac65c6498..a69db2e993 100644
--- a/test/internal/ban-words.test.ts
+++ b/test/internal/ban-words.test.ts
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ const words: Record<string, { reason: string; limit?: number; regex?: boolean }>
 
   [String.raw`: [a-zA-Z0-9_\.\*\?\[\]\(\)]+ = undefined,`]: { reason: "Do not default a struct field to undefined", limit: 242, regex: true },
   "usingnamespace": { reason: "Zig 0.15 will remove `usingnamespace`" },
-  "catch unreachable": { reason: "For out-of-memory, prefer 'catch bun.outOfMemory()'", limit: 1859 },
+  "catch unreachable": { reason: "For out-of-memory, prefer 'catch bun.outOfMemory()'", limit: 1861 },
 
   "std.fs.Dir": { reason: "Prefer bun.sys + bun.FD instead of std.fs", limit: 179 },
   "std.fs.cwd": { reason: "Prefer bun.FD.cwd()", limit: 102 },