diff --git a/tests/evals/gsm8k/configs/GLM-5.2-NVFP4-TP2-PCP2-EP.yaml b/tests/evals/gsm8k/configs/GLM-5.2-NVFP4-TP2-PCP2-EP.yaml
index bc5c11fa53..141bf68162 100644
--- a/tests/evals/gsm8k/configs/GLM-5.2-NVFP4-TP2-PCP2-EP.yaml
+++ b/tests/evals/gsm8k/configs/GLM-5.2-NVFP4-TP2-PCP2-EP.yaml
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ accuracy_threshold: 0.90
 num_questions: 1319
 num_fewshot: 5
 max_concurrency: 100
+# 30B+ MoE with EP/PCP: download + kernel autotuning can exceed the 1200s default.
+startup_max_wait_seconds: 2400
 # Leave headroom for FlashInfer CUTLASS autotuning after KV-cache allocation.
 server_args: >-
   --compilation-config '{"cudagraph_mode":"NONE"}'
diff --git a/tests/evals/gsm8k/configs/moe-refactor-dp-ep/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Fp8-AutoFp8-deepgemm-deepep-ll.yaml b/tests/evals/gsm8k/configs/moe-refactor-dp-ep/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Fp8-AutoFp8-deepgemm-deepep-ll.yaml
index 5f10684d2e..f81eb1c188 100644
--- a/tests/evals/gsm8k/configs/moe-refactor-dp-ep/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Fp8-AutoFp8-deepgemm-deepep-ll.yaml
+++ b/tests/evals/gsm8k/configs/moe-refactor-dp-ep/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Fp8-AutoFp8-deepgemm-deepep-ll.yaml
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ model_name: "Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-FP8"
 accuracy_threshold: 0.88
 num_questions: 1319
 num_fewshot: 5
+# 30B MoE + DeepGEMM/DeepEP JIT compile can exceed the 1200s default startup wait.
+startup_max_wait_seconds: 2400
 server_args: "--enforce-eager --max-model-len 8192 --data-parallel-size 2 --enable-expert-parallel --all2all-backend deepep_low_latency --disable-uvicorn-access-log"
 env:
   VLLM_USE_DEEP_GEMM: "1"
diff --git a/tests/evals/gsm8k/configs/moe-refactor-dp-ep/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Fp8-CT-Block-deepgemm-deepep-ll.yaml b/tests/evals/gsm8k/configs/moe-refactor-dp-ep/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Fp8-CT-Block-deepgemm-deepep-ll.yaml
index 37e6039e96..3987065f6f 100644
--- a/tests/evals/gsm8k/configs/moe-refactor-dp-ep/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Fp8-CT-Block-deepgemm-deepep-ll.yaml
+++ b/tests/evals/gsm8k/configs/moe-refactor-dp-ep/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Fp8-CT-Block-deepgemm-deepep-ll.yaml
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ model_name: "RedHatAI/Qwen3-30B-A3B-FP8-block"
 accuracy_threshold: 0.85
 num_questions: 1319
 num_fewshot: 5
+# 30B MoE + DeepGEMM/DeepEP JIT compile can exceed the 1200s default startup wait.
+startup_max_wait_seconds: 2400
 server_args: "--enforce-eager --max-model-len 8192 --data-parallel-size 2 --enable-expert-parallel --all2all-backend deepep_low_latency --disable-uvicorn-access-log"
 env:
   VLLM_USE_DEEP_GEMM: "1"
diff --git a/tests/evals/gsm8k/configs/moe-refactor-dp-ep/Qwen3-30B-A3B-NvFp4-CT-fi-cutedsl-deepep-ll.yaml b/tests/evals/gsm8k/configs/moe-refactor-dp-ep/Qwen3-30B-A3B-NvFp4-CT-fi-cutedsl-deepep-ll.yaml
index 6624cea1ef..004e3e15e3 100644
--- a/tests/evals/gsm8k/configs/moe-refactor-dp-ep/Qwen3-30B-A3B-NvFp4-CT-fi-cutedsl-deepep-ll.yaml
+++ b/tests/evals/gsm8k/configs/moe-refactor-dp-ep/Qwen3-30B-A3B-NvFp4-CT-fi-cutedsl-deepep-ll.yaml
@@ -2,4 +2,6 @@ model_name: "RedHatAI/Qwen3-30B-A3B-NVFP4"
 accuracy_threshold: 0.88
 num_questions: 1319
 num_fewshot: 5
+# 30B MoE + CuTeDSL/DeepEP JIT compile can exceed the 1200s default startup wait.
+startup_max_wait_seconds: 2400
 server_args: "--enforce-eager --max-model-len 8192 --data-parallel-size 2 --enable-expert-parallel --all2all-backend deepep_low_latency --moe-backend=flashinfer_cutedsl"
diff --git a/tests/evals/gsm8k/configs/moe-refactor-dp-ep/Qwen3-30B-A3B-NvFp4-ModelOpt-fi-cutedsl-deepep-ll.yaml b/tests/evals/gsm8k/configs/moe-refactor-dp-ep/Qwen3-30B-A3B-NvFp4-ModelOpt-fi-cutedsl-deepep-ll.yaml
index f2d4588e3a..55892f2196 100644
--- a/tests/evals/gsm8k/configs/moe-refactor-dp-ep/Qwen3-30B-A3B-NvFp4-ModelOpt-fi-cutedsl-deepep-ll.yaml
+++ b/tests/evals/gsm8k/configs/moe-refactor-dp-ep/Qwen3-30B-A3B-NvFp4-ModelOpt-fi-cutedsl-deepep-ll.yaml
@@ -2,4 +2,6 @@ model_name: "nvidia/Qwen3-30B-A3B-NVFP4"
 accuracy_threshold: 0.88
 num_questions: 1319
 num_fewshot: 5
+# 30B MoE + CuTeDSL/DeepEP JIT compile can exceed the 1200s default startup wait.
+startup_max_wait_seconds: 2400
 server_args: "--enforce-eager --max-model-len 8192 --data-parallel-size 2 --enable-expert-parallel --all2all-backend deepep_low_latency --moe-backend=flashinfer_cutedsl"