diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 064ab8b3..cb37372d 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -7,6 +7,10 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ## Unreleased
 
+### Added
+
+- Added `retries` field to `BeakerLaunchConfig`.
+
 ## [v1.6.0](https://github.com/allenai/OLMo-core/releases/tag/v1.6.0) - 2024-11-01
 
 ### Added
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index b770d742..0633a4c5 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ dev = [
     "sphinx-autodoc-typehints==1.23.3",
 ]
 beaker = [
-    "beaker-py",
+    "beaker-py>=1.32.0",
     "GitPython>=3.0,<4.0",
 ]
 wandb = [
diff --git a/src/olmo_core/launch/beaker.py b/src/olmo_core/launch/beaker.py
index 3bfa2f29..50353db9 100644
--- a/src/olmo_core/launch/beaker.py
+++ b/src/olmo_core/launch/beaker.py
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
     ExperimentSpec,
     Job,
     Priority,
+    RetrySpec,
     TaskResources,
     TaskSpec,
 )
@@ -175,6 +176,11 @@ class BeakerLaunchConfig(Config):
     If the job should be preemptible.
     """
 
+    retries: Optional[int] = None
+    """
+    The number of times to retry the experiment if it fails.
+    """
+
     env_vars: List[BeakerEnvVar] = field(default_factory=list)
     """
     Additional env vars to include.
@@ -360,7 +366,12 @@ def build_experiment_spec(self, torchrun: bool = True) -> ExperimentSpec:
             for bucket in self.weka_buckets:
                 task_spec = task_spec.with_dataset(bucket.mount, weka=bucket.bucket)
 
-        return ExperimentSpec(description=self.description, budget=self.budget, tasks=[task_spec])
+        return ExperimentSpec(
+            description=self.description,
+            budget=self.budget,
+            tasks=[task_spec],
+            retry=None if not self.retries else RetrySpec(allowed_task_retries=self.retries),
+        )
 
     def _follow_experiment(self, experiment: Experiment):
         # Wait for job to start...