diff --git a/.ci/scripts/test_model_cuda_e2e.sh b/.ci/scripts/test_model_cuda_e2e.sh
index 02845bf4b96..d233f1e5869 100755
--- a/.ci/scripts/test_model_cuda_e2e.sh
+++ b/.ci/scripts/test_model_cuda_e2e.sh
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ Arguments:
               Supported models:
                 - mistralai/Voxtral-Mini-3B-2507
                 - openai/whisper-small
+                - openai/whisper-large
                 - google/gemma-3-4b-it
 
   quant_name  Quantization type (required)
@@ -103,6 +104,18 @@ case "$HF_MODEL" in
     AUDIO_FILE="output.wav"
     IMAGE_PATH=""
     ;;
+  openai/whisper-large)
+    MODEL_NAME="whisper"
+    RUNNER_TARGET="whisper_runner"
+    RUNNER_PATH="whisper"
+    EXPECTED_OUTPUT="Mr. Quilter is the apostle of the middle classes"
+    PREPROCESSOR="whisper_preprocessor.pte"
+    TOKENIZER_URL="https://huggingface.co/openai/whisper-large/resolve/main" # @lint-ignore
+    TOKENIZER_FILE=""
+    AUDIO_URL=""
+    AUDIO_FILE="output.wav"
+    IMAGE_PATH=""
+    ;;
   google/gemma-3-4b-it)
     MODEL_NAME="gemma3"
     RUNNER_TARGET="gemma3_e2e_runner"
@@ -117,7 +130,7 @@ case "$HF_MODEL" in
     ;;
   *)
     echo "Error: Unsupported model '$HF_MODEL'"
-    echo "Supported models: mistralai/Voxtral-Mini-3B-2507, openai/whisper-small, google/gemma-3-4b-it"
+    echo "Supported models: mistralai/Voxtral-Mini-3B-2507, openai/whisper-small, openai/whisper-large, google/gemma-3-4b-it"
     exit 1
     ;;
 esac
diff --git a/.github/workflows/cuda.yml b/.github/workflows/cuda.yml
index 356180772c4..5fe427ef182 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/cuda.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/cuda.yml
@@ -104,6 +104,8 @@ jobs:
             name: "Voxtral-Mini-3B-2507"
           - repo: "openai"
             name: "whisper-small"
+          - repo: "openai"
+            name: "whisper-large"
           - repo: "google"
             name: "gemma-3-4b-it"
         quant:
@@ -223,6 +225,8 @@ jobs:
             name: "Voxtral-Mini-3B-2507"
           - repo: "openai"
             name: "whisper-small"
+          - repo: "openai"
+            name: "whisper-large"
           - repo: "google"
             name: "gemma-3-4b-it"
         quant:
diff --git a/runtime/core/exec_aten/exec_aten.h b/runtime/core/exec_aten/exec_aten.h
index beed562b81e..a7d7ea4dd30 100644
--- a/runtime/core/exec_aten/exec_aten.h
+++ b/runtime/core/exec_aten/exec_aten.h
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
 #include <executorch/runtime/core/portable_type/complex.h> // @manual
 #include <executorch/runtime/core/portable_type/device.h> // @manual
 #include <executorch/runtime/core/portable_type/half.h> // @manual
+#include <executorch/runtime/core/portable_type/optional.h> // @manual
 #include <executorch/runtime/core/portable_type/qint_types.h> // @manual
 #include <executorch/runtime/core/portable_type/scalar.h> // @manual
 #include <executorch/runtime/core/portable_type/scalar_type.h> // @manual