diff --git a/.github/workflows/pull.yml b/.github/workflows/pull.yml
index 7d5d91cafce..edce1d17601 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pull.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pull.yml
@@ -139,6 +139,39 @@ jobs:
         # shipped libexecutorch.so via find_package(executorch).
         PYTHON_EXECUTABLE=python bash .ci/scripts/test_cpp_sdk_wheel.sh
 
+  test-cpp-sdk-wheel-cuda-linux:
+    name: test-cpp-sdk-wheel-cuda-linux
+    needs: changed-files
+    if: ${{ contains(needs.changed-files.outputs.changed-files, 'backends/cuda') || contains(needs.changed-files.outputs.changed-files, 'setup.py') || contains(needs.changed-files.outputs.changed-files, '.ci/scripts/test_cpp_sdk_wheel.sh') || contains(needs.changed-files.outputs.changed-files, 'tools/cmake/executorch-wheel-config.cmake') || contains(needs.changed-files.outputs.changed-files, '.github/workflows/pull.yml') }}
+    uses: pytorch/test-infra/.github/workflows/linux_job_v2.yml@main
+    permissions:
+      id-token: write
+      contents: read
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+    with:
+      runner: linux.g5.4xlarge.nvidia.gpu
+      gpu-arch-type: cuda
+      gpu-arch-version: "12.6"
+      use-custom-docker-registry: false
+      submodules: 'recursive'
+      ref: ${{ github.event_name == 'pull_request' && github.event.pull_request.head.sha || github.sha }}
+      timeout: 90
+      script: |
+        set -eux
+        CONDA_ENV=$(conda env list --json | jq -r ".envs | .[-1]")
+        conda activate "${CONDA_ENV}"
+
+        # Build a CUDA wheel and exercise the real libexecutorch_cuda_backend.so.
+        # EXPECT_CUDA=1 fails the job if the delegate .so did not ship (so a
+        # regression cannot stay green on this GPU runner). The .so has a hard
+        # DT_NEEDED on the CUDA runtime libraries, so expose the system toolkit.
+        export EXPECT_CUDA=1
+        export SDK_WHEEL_CMAKE_ARGS="-DEXECUTORCH_BUILD_CUDA=ON"
+        export TORCH_INDEX_URL="https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu126"
+        export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/local/cuda/lib64${LD_LIBRARY_PATH:+:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}}"
+        PYTHON_EXECUTABLE=python bash .ci/scripts/test_cpp_sdk_wheel.sh
+
   test-models-linux-basic:
     name: test-models-linux-basic
     uses: pytorch/test-infra/.github/workflows/linux_job_v2.yml@main
diff --git a/backends/cuda/CMakeLists.txt b/backends/cuda/CMakeLists.txt
index 06990692428..0c8bff7c9cf 100644
--- a/backends/cuda/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/backends/cuda/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -261,3 +261,75 @@ if(BUILD_TESTING)
   )
   target_compile_definitions(test_cuda_mutable_state PRIVATE CUDA_AVAILABLE=1)
 endif()
+
+# Loadable CUDA backend shared library for the C++ SDK / pip wheel.
+#
+# aoti_cuda_backend above is a static archive whose static initializer registers
+# the "CudaBackend". Today that archive is only force-linked into
+# _portable_lib.so for Python. To let a standalone C++ program (or a coalesced
+# TensorRT+CUDA .pte) load the CUDA delegate the same way QNN ships
+# libqnn_executorch_backend.so, wrap it in a shared library that whole-archives
+# aoti_cuda_backend so the registration constructor is retained and runs when
+# the .so is loaded. The backend resolves executorch runtime / extension_cuda
+# symbols from the co-shipped libexecutorch.so and libextension_cuda.so at load
+# time, so this stays libtorch-free.
+#
+# Requires EXECUTORCH_BUILD_SHARED: this target links the shared runtime
+# (executorch_shared -> libexecutorch.so), which only exists in a shared build.
+# Gating here (not just in setup.py) keeps ordinary CUDA source/editable builds
+# with the default EXECUTORCH_BUILD_SHARED=OFF working. Not built on MSVC: the
+# wheel C++ SDK is Linux only.
+if(NOT _cuda_is_msvc_toolchain AND EXECUTORCH_BUILD_SHARED)
+  add_library(
+    executorch_cuda_backend SHARED runtime/executorch_cuda_backend_lib.cpp
+  )
+  # All dependencies are PRIVATE: this wrapper exists only to bundle the
+  # whole-archived static backend into one loadable .so. aoti_cuda_backend
+  # already carries a whole-archive INTERFACE link option
+  # (executorch_target_link_options_shared_lib above), so linking it plainly
+  # force-loads its "CudaBackend" registration into THIS .so once. Keeping it
+  # PRIVATE means the static archive is not re-exported to consumers of
+  # executorch_cuda_backend: otherwise a consumer would link the archive again
+  # and run the registration a second time, hitting the duplicate-registration
+  # ET_CHECK. Linking executorch_shared (not static executorch_core) makes the
+  # runtime symbols resolve from the one process-wide libexecutorch.so at load
+  # (DT_NEEDED) rather than embedding a second registry.
+  target_link_libraries(
+    executorch_cuda_backend PRIVATE aoti_cuda_backend executorch_shared
+                                    extension_cuda
+  )
+  # Runtime search path for the SHIPPED library. In the wheel this .so lives in
+  # executorch/lib/ alongside libexecutorch.so and libextension_cuda.so
+  # ($ORIGIN), while its DT_NEEDED libaoti_cuda_shims.so is shipped in
+  # executorch/backends/cuda/ ($ORIGIN/../backends/cuda). CUDA runtime libraries
+  # (libcudart, libcurand) are expected from the environment (system CUDA or the
+  # torch CUDA wheel), so no absolute toolkit path is baked in.
+  #
+  # BUILD_WITH_INSTALL_RPATH makes the built artifact use INSTALL_RPATH directly
+  # and suppresses CMake's automatic absolute build-tree RPATH entries. This is
+  # required because the wheel packages the build-tree .so as-is (it does not
+  # run cmake --install), so without this the shipped .so would carry absolute
+  # /.../pip-out/... paths and fail to relocate to a user machine.
+  set_target_properties(
+    executorch_cuda_backend
+    PROPERTIES BUILD_WITH_INSTALL_RPATH TRUE INSTALL_RPATH
+                                             "$ORIGIN:$ORIGIN/../backends/cuda"
+  )
+  # Force-load for consumers of the EXPORTED target. This library has only
+  # load-time registration side effects and no referenced symbols, so under an
+  # --as-needed toolchain it would be dropped and CudaBackend never register.
+  # --whole-archive is a no-op on a .so, so anchor with --no-as-needed like the
+  # wheel-config imported target does.
+  if(NOT APPLE AND NOT WIN32)
+    target_link_options(
+      executorch_cuda_backend
+      INTERFACE
+      "SHELL:LINKER:--push-state,--no-as-needed       $<TARGET_FILE:executorch_cuda_backend> LINKER:--pop-state"
+    )
+  endif()
+  install(
+    TARGETS executorch_cuda_backend
+    EXPORT ExecuTorchTargets
+    DESTINATION lib
+  )
+endif()
diff --git a/backends/cuda/runtime/executorch_cuda_backend_lib.cpp b/backends/cuda/runtime/executorch_cuda_backend_lib.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..0def55ee717
--- /dev/null
+++ b/backends/cuda/runtime/executorch_cuda_backend_lib.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (c) Meta Platforms, Inc. and affiliates.
+ * All rights reserved.
+ *
+ * This source code is licensed under the BSD-style license found in the
+ * LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
+ */
+
+// This translation unit intentionally contains no symbols. The
+// executorch_cuda_backend shared library exists solely to bundle the
+// whole-archived aoti_cuda_backend static library so its "CudaBackend"
+// registration constructor is retained and runs when the .so is loaded. CMake
+// requires a SHARED target to have at least one source file.