diff --git a/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python3-grpcio-tools_1.62.2.bb b/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python3-grpcio-tools_1.62.2.bb
index e05b8734d6..5b8bbe681a 100644
--- a/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python3-grpcio-tools_1.62.2.bb
+++ b/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python3-grpcio-tools_1.62.2.bb
@@ -16,4 +16,8 @@ SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "5fd5e1582b678e6b941ee5f5809340be5e0724691df5299aae8226640f
 
 RDEPENDS:${PN} = "python3-grpcio"
 
+do_compile:prepend() {
+    export GRPC_PYTHON_BUILD_EXT_COMPILER_JOBS="${@oe.utils.parallel_make(d, False)}"
+}
+
 BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"
diff --git a/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python3-grpcio_1.62.2.bb b/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python3-grpcio_1.62.2.bb
index b12b509142..3581991a56 100644
--- a/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python3-grpcio_1.62.2.bb
+++ b/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python3-grpcio_1.62.2.bb
@@ -38,6 +38,10 @@ BORING_SSL:aarch64 = "1"
 BORING_SSL ?= "0"
 export GRPC_BUILD_WITH_BORING_SSL_ASM = "${BORING_SSL}"
 
+do_compile:prepend() {
+    export GRPC_PYTHON_BUILD_EXT_COMPILER_JOBS="${@oe.utils.parallel_make(d, False)}"
+}
+
 GRPC_CFLAGS ?= ""
 GRPC_CFLAGS:append:toolchain-clang = " -fvisibility=hidden -fno-wrapv -fno-exceptions"
 export GRPC_PYTHON_CFLAGS = "${GRPC_CFLAGS}"
