diff --git a/go/tasks/plugins/k8s/kfoperators/pytorch/pytorch.go b/go/tasks/plugins/k8s/kfoperators/pytorch/pytorch.go
index 0ad038f64..19a678e27 100644
--- a/go/tasks/plugins/k8s/kfoperators/pytorch/pytorch.go
+++ b/go/tasks/plugins/k8s/kfoperators/pytorch/pytorch.go
@@ -66,6 +66,17 @@ func (pytorchOperatorResourceHandler) BuildResource(ctx context.Context, taskCtx
 		return nil, flyteerr.Errorf(flyteerr.BadTaskSpecification, "Unable to create pod spec: [%v]", err.Error())
 	}
 
+	podTemplate := flytek8s.DefaultPodTemplateStore.LoadOrDefault(taskCtx.TaskExecutionMetadata().GetNamespace())
+
+	if podTemplate != nil {
+		basePodSpec := podTemplate.Template.Spec.DeepCopy()
+		mergedPodSpec, err := flytek8s.MergePodSpecs(basePodSpec, podSpec, kubeflowv1.PytorchJobDefaultContainerName)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, flyteerr.Errorf(flyteerr.BadTaskSpecification, "Unable to merge default pod template: [%v]", err.Error())
+		}
+		podSpec = mergedPodSpec
+	}
+
 	common.OverrideDefaultContainerName(taskCtx, podSpec, kubeflowv1.PytorchJobDefaultContainerName)
 
 	workers := pytorchTaskExtraArgs.GetWorkers()
diff --git a/go/tasks/plugins/k8s/kfoperators/pytorch/pytorch_test.go b/go/tasks/plugins/k8s/kfoperators/pytorch/pytorch_test.go
index 5185d150d..0c4dcb3b1 100644
--- a/go/tasks/plugins/k8s/kfoperators/pytorch/pytorch_test.go
+++ b/go/tasks/plugins/k8s/kfoperators/pytorch/pytorch_test.go
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ func dummyPytorchCustomObj(workers int32) *plugins.DistributedPyTorchTrainingTas
 	}
 }
 
-func dummySparkTaskTemplate(id string, pytorchCustomObj *plugins.DistributedPyTorchTrainingTask) *core.TaskTemplate {
+func dummyPytorchTaskTemplate(id string, pytorchCustomObj *plugins.DistributedPyTorchTrainingTask) *core.TaskTemplate {
 
 	ptObjJSON, err := utils.MarshalToString(pytorchCustomObj)
 	if err != nil {
@@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ func dummyPytorchJobResource(pytorchResourceHandler pytorchOperatorResourceHandl
 	}
 
 	ptObj := dummyPytorchCustomObj(workers)
-	taskTemplate := dummySparkTaskTemplate("the job", ptObj)
+	taskTemplate := dummyPytorchTaskTemplate("the job", ptObj)
 	resource, err := pytorchResourceHandler.BuildResource(context.TODO(), dummyPytorchTaskContext(taskTemplate))
 	if err != nil {
 		panic(err)
@@ -286,7 +286,7 @@ func TestBuildResourcePytorch(t *testing.T) {
 	pytorchResourceHandler := pytorchOperatorResourceHandler{}
 
 	ptObj := dummyPytorchCustomObj(100)
-	taskTemplate := dummySparkTaskTemplate("the job", ptObj)
+	taskTemplate := dummyPytorchTaskTemplate("the job", ptObj)
 
 	resource, err := pytorchResourceHandler.BuildResource(context.TODO(), dummyPytorchTaskContext(taskTemplate))
 	assert.NoError(t, err)