diff --git a/src/maxtext/checkpoint_conversion/utils/hf_model_configs.py b/src/maxtext/checkpoint_conversion/utils/hf_model_configs.py
index 7e827352b4..41ed261626 100644
--- a/src/maxtext/checkpoint_conversion/utils/hf_model_configs.py
+++ b/src/maxtext/checkpoint_conversion/utils/hf_model_configs.py
@@ -261,6 +261,22 @@
     torch_dtype="bfloat16",
 )
 
+qwen3_1_7b_config = transformers.Qwen3Config(
+    vocab_size=151936,
+    hidden_size=2048,
+    intermediate_size=6144,
+    num_hidden_layers=28,
+    num_attention_heads=16,
+    num_key_value_heads=8,
+    head_dim=128,
+    hidden_act="silu",
+    max_position_embeddings=40960,
+    rms_norm_eps=1.0e-6,
+    rope_theta=1000000.0,
+    tie_word_embeddings=True,
+    torch_dtype="bfloat16",
+)
+
 qwen3_4b_config = transformers.Qwen3Config(
     vocab_size=151936,
     hidden_size=2560,
@@ -853,6 +869,7 @@
     "qwen2.5-7b": qwen25_7b_config,
     "qwen2.5-14b": qwen25_14b_config,
     "qwen3-0.6b": qwen3_0_6b_config,
+    "qwen3-1.7b": qwen3_1_7b_config,
     "qwen3-4b": qwen3_4b_config,
     "qwen3-4b-thinking-2507": qwen3_4b_config,
     "qwen3-8b": qwen3_8b_config,
diff --git a/src/maxtext/checkpoint_conversion/utils/param_mapping.py b/src/maxtext/checkpoint_conversion/utils/param_mapping.py
index 43f2662e34..8cd5bc4ca5 100644
--- a/src/maxtext/checkpoint_conversion/utils/param_mapping.py
+++ b/src/maxtext/checkpoint_conversion/utils/param_mapping.py
@@ -2368,6 +2368,7 @@ def pad_hf_embedding_layer(input_tensor, target_shape):
     "qwen2.5-7b": QWEN_MAXTEXT_TO_HF_PARAM_MAPPING,
     "qwen2.5-14b": QWEN_MAXTEXT_TO_HF_PARAM_MAPPING,
     "qwen3-0.6b": QWEN_MAXTEXT_TO_HF_PARAM_MAPPING,
+    "qwen3-1.7b": QWEN_MAXTEXT_TO_HF_PARAM_MAPPING,
     "qwen3-4b": QWEN_MAXTEXT_TO_HF_PARAM_MAPPING,
     "qwen3-4b-thinking-2507": QWEN_MAXTEXT_TO_HF_PARAM_MAPPING,
     "qwen3-8b": QWEN_MAXTEXT_TO_HF_PARAM_MAPPING,
@@ -2405,6 +2406,7 @@ def pad_hf_embedding_layer(input_tensor, target_shape):
     "qwen2.5-7b": QWEN_MAXTEXT_TO_HF_PARAM_HOOK_FN,
     "qwen2.5-14b": QWEN_MAXTEXT_TO_HF_PARAM_HOOK_FN,
     "qwen3-0.6b": QWEN_MAXTEXT_TO_HF_PARAM_HOOK_FN,
+    "qwen3-1.7b": QWEN_MAXTEXT_TO_HF_PARAM_HOOK_FN,
     "qwen3-4b": QWEN_MAXTEXT_TO_HF_PARAM_HOOK_FN,
     "qwen3-4b-thinking-2507": QWEN_MAXTEXT_TO_HF_PARAM_HOOK_FN,
     "qwen3-8b": QWEN_MAXTEXT_TO_HF_PARAM_HOOK_FN,
diff --git a/src/maxtext/configs/types.py b/src/maxtext/configs/types.py
index 3df51ac106..d74fd197a0 100644
--- a/src/maxtext/configs/types.py
+++ b/src/maxtext/configs/types.py
@@ -235,6 +235,7 @@ class ProfilerType(str, Enum):
     "qwen2.5-7b",
     "qwen2.5-14b",
     "qwen3-0.6b",
+    "qwen3-1.7b",
     "qwen3-4b",
     "qwen3-4b-thinking-2507",
     "qwen3-8b",
diff --git a/src/maxtext/utils/globals.py b/src/maxtext/utils/globals.py
index 203d7a6165..72c1a95ccf 100644
--- a/src/maxtext/utils/globals.py
+++ b/src/maxtext/utils/globals.py
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@
     "qwen2.5-7b": "Qwen/Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct",
     "qwen2.5-14b": "Qwen/Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct",
     "qwen3-0.6b": "Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B",
+    "qwen3-1.7b": "Qwen/Qwen3-1.7B",
     "qwen3-4b": "Qwen/Qwen3-4B",
     "qwen3-4b-thinking-2507": "Qwen/Qwen3-4B-Thinking-2507",
     "qwen3-8b": "Qwen/Qwen3-8B",