diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 683ab24ef..ae4b70990 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 [build-system]
 build-backend = "backend"
 requires = [
+  "pybind11",
   "setuptools>=77",
 ]
 backend-path = [
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index ab36c6b17..ec6b47b1c 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -18,9 +18,12 @@ import warnings
 from collections.abc import Iterator
 from typing import Any
 
+from pybind11.setup_helpers import ParallelCompile
 from setuptools import Extension, setup
 from setuptools.command.build_ext import build_ext
 
+ParallelCompile("MAX_CONCURRENCY", default=0).install()
+
 
 def get_version() -> str:
     version_file = "src/PIL/_version.py"
@@ -1048,12 +1051,12 @@ ext_modules = [
     Extension("PIL._imagingmorph", ["src/_imagingmorph.c"]),
 ]
 
-
 # parse configuration from _custom_build/backend.py
 while sys.argv[-1].startswith("--pillow-configuration="):
     _, key, value = sys.argv.pop().split("=", 2)
     configuration.setdefault(key, []).append(value)
 
+
 try:
     setup(
         cmdclass={"build_ext": pil_build_ext},