diff --git a/.buildkite/pipeline.yml b/.buildkite/pipeline.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1d64f3d8e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.buildkite/pipeline.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+steps:
+  - label: ":toolbox: Qwen2.5 omni offline example"
+    commands:
+      - ".buildkite/scripts/run_qwen_offline_example.sh"
+    agents:
+      queue: "gpu"
diff --git a/.buildkite/scripts/run_qwen_offline_example.sh b/.buildkite/scripts/run_qwen_offline_example.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..2c3079a74
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.buildkite/scripts/run_qwen_offline_example.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+set -euo pipefail
+
+ROOT_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/.." && pwd)"
+cd "${ROOT_DIR}"
+
+python3 -m venv .venv
+source .venv/bin/activate
+
+python -m pip install --upgrade pip
+python -m pip install uv
+
+uv pip install vllm==0.11.0 --torch-backend=auto
+uv pip install -e .
+
+EXAMPLE_DIR="examples/offline_inference/qwen2_5_omni"
+cd "${EXAMPLE_DIR}"
+
+if [[ ! -f top100.txt ]]; then
+  echo "Hello from vLLM-omni Buildkite smoke test." > top100.txt
+fi
+
+bash run_multiple_prompts.sh
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 6a004ce25..59a839811 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ cython_debug/
 docker/
 
 # scripts
-scripts/
+/scripts/
 
 # tests
 tests/