diff --git a/.buildkite/test_areas/distributed.yaml b/.buildkite/test_areas/distributed.yaml
index f94f831a4..331103cee 100644
--- a/.buildkite/test_areas/distributed.yaml
+++ b/.buildkite/test_areas/distributed.yaml
@@ -15,8 +15,29 @@ steps:
   - pytest -v -s distributed/test_shm_buffer.py
   - pytest -v -s distributed/test_shm_storage.py
 
-- label: Distributed (2 GPUs)
-  timeout_in_minutes: 60
+- label: Distributed DP Tests (2 GPUs)
+  timeout_in_minutes: 20
+  working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/tests"
+  num_devices: 2
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - vllm/distributed/
+  - vllm/engine/
+  - vllm/executor/
+  - vllm/worker/worker_base.py
+  - vllm/v1/engine/
+  - vllm/v1/worker/
+  - tests/v1/distributed
+  - tests/v1/entrypoints/openai/test_multi_api_servers.py
+  commands:
+  # https://github.com/NVIDIA/nccl/issues/1838
+  - export NCCL_CUMEM_HOST_ENABLE=0
+  - TP_SIZE=1 DP_SIZE=2 pytest -v -s v1/distributed/test_async_llm_dp.py
+  - TP_SIZE=1 DP_SIZE=2 pytest -v -s v1/distributed/test_eagle_dp.py
+  - TP_SIZE=1 DP_SIZE=2 pytest -v -s v1/distributed/test_external_lb_dp.py
+  - DP_SIZE=2 pytest -v -s v1/entrypoints/openai/test_multi_api_servers.py
+
+- label: Distributed Compile + RPC Tests (2 GPUs)
+  timeout_in_minutes: 20
   working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/tests"
   num_devices: 2
   source_file_dependencies:
@@ -29,22 +50,31 @@ steps:
   - vllm/v1/worker/
   - tests/compile/fullgraph/test_basic_correctness.py
   - tests/compile/test_wrapper.py
-  - tests/distributed/
   - tests/entrypoints/llm/test_collective_rpc.py
-  - tests/v1/distributed
-  - tests/v1/entrypoints/openai/test_multi_api_servers.py
+  commands:
+  # https://github.com/NVIDIA/nccl/issues/1838
+  - export NCCL_CUMEM_HOST_ENABLE=0
+  - pytest -v -s entrypoints/llm/test_collective_rpc.py
+  - pytest -v -s ./compile/fullgraph/test_basic_correctness.py
+  - pytest -v -s ./compile/test_wrapper.py
+
+- label: Distributed Torchrun + Shutdown Tests (2 GPUs)
+  timeout_in_minutes: 20
+  working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/tests"
+  num_devices: 2
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - vllm/distributed/
+  - vllm/engine/
+  - vllm/executor/
+  - vllm/worker/worker_base.py
+  - vllm/v1/engine/
+  - vllm/v1/worker/
+  - tests/distributed/
   - tests/v1/shutdown
   - tests/v1/worker/test_worker_memory_snapshot.py
   commands:
   # https://github.com/NVIDIA/nccl/issues/1838
   - export NCCL_CUMEM_HOST_ENABLE=0
-  - TP_SIZE=1 DP_SIZE=2 pytest -v -s v1/distributed/test_async_llm_dp.py
-  - TP_SIZE=1 DP_SIZE=2 pytest -v -s v1/distributed/test_eagle_dp.py
-  - TP_SIZE=1 DP_SIZE=2 pytest -v -s v1/distributed/test_external_lb_dp.py
-  - DP_SIZE=2 pytest -v -s v1/entrypoints/openai/test_multi_api_servers.py
-  - pytest -v -s entrypoints/llm/test_collective_rpc.py
-  - pytest -v -s ./compile/fullgraph/test_basic_correctness.py
-  - pytest -v -s ./compile/test_wrapper.py
   - VLLM_TEST_SAME_HOST=1 torchrun --nproc-per-node=4 distributed/test_same_node.py | grep 'Same node test passed'
   - VLLM_TEST_SAME_HOST=1 VLLM_TEST_WITH_DEFAULT_DEVICE_SET=1 torchrun --nproc-per-node=4 distributed/test_same_node.py | grep 'Same node test passed'
   - CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0,1 pytest -v -s v1/shutdown
diff --git a/.buildkite/test_areas/kernels.yaml b/.buildkite/test_areas/kernels.yaml
index e0be49cf3..8eba8da0b 100644
--- a/.buildkite/test_areas/kernels.yaml
+++ b/.buildkite/test_areas/kernels.yaml
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ steps:
   parallelism: 2
 
 - label: Kernels MoE Test %N
-  timeout_in_minutes: 60
+  timeout_in_minutes: 25
   source_file_dependencies:
   - csrc/quantization/cutlass_w8a8/moe/
   - csrc/moe/
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ steps:
   commands:
     - pytest -v -s kernels/moe --ignore=kernels/moe/test_modular_oai_triton_moe.py --shard-id=$$BUILDKITE_PARALLEL_JOB --num-shards=$$BUILDKITE_PARALLEL_JOB_COUNT
     - pytest -v -s kernels/moe/test_modular_oai_triton_moe.py --shard-id=$$BUILDKITE_PARALLEL_JOB --num-shards=$$BUILDKITE_PARALLEL_JOB_COUNT
-  parallelism: 2
+  parallelism: 5
 
 - label: Kernels Mamba Test
   timeout_in_minutes: 45