diff --git a/ci/build_wheel.sh b/ci/build_wheel.sh
index fd01454cc..024a4f182 100755
--- a/ci/build_wheel.sh
+++ b/ci/build_wheel.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #!/bin/bash
-# Copyright (c) 2023-2024, NVIDIA CORPORATION.
+# Copyright (c) 2023-2025, NVIDIA CORPORATION.
 
 set -euo pipefail
 
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ rapids-generate-version > ./VERSION
 
 cd "${package_dir}"
 
-python -m pip wheel \
+rapids-pip-retry wheel \
     -w dist \
     -v \
     --no-deps \
diff --git a/ci/test_wheel_nx-cugraph.sh b/ci/test_wheel_nx-cugraph.sh
index 5f0917fca..5eae2a5a9 100755
--- a/ci/test_wheel_nx-cugraph.sh
+++ b/ci/test_wheel_nx-cugraph.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #!/bin/bash
-# Copyright (c) 2023-2024, NVIDIA CORPORATION.
+# Copyright (c) 2023-2025, NVIDIA CORPORATION.
 
 set -eoxu pipefail
 
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ RAPIDS_PY_CUDA_SUFFIX="$(rapids-wheel-ctk-name-gen ${RAPIDS_CUDA_VERSION})"
 RAPIDS_PY_WHEEL_NAME="${package_name}_${RAPIDS_PY_CUDA_SUFFIX}" RAPIDS_PY_WHEEL_PURE="1" rapids-download-wheels-from-s3 ./dist
 
 # echo to expand wildcard before adding `[extra]` requires for pip
-python -m pip install \
+rapids-pip-retry install \
     "$(echo ./dist/${python_package_name}*.whl)[test]"
 
 # Run smoke tests for aarch64 pull requests