diff --git a/.circleci/create_circleci_config.py b/.circleci/create_circleci_config.py
index 2a09d5f8542e29..cbcbf63087b8e0 100644
--- a/.circleci/create_circleci_config.py
+++ b/.circleci/create_circleci_config.py
@@ -272,6 +272,7 @@ def job_name(self):
         "pip install tensorflow_probability",
     ],
     parallelism=1,
+    pytest_num_workers=6,
     pytest_options={"rA": None},
 )