diff --git a/python/freetoken/engine/engine.py b/python/freetoken/engine/engine.py
index cd6505d2..a1cc7351 100644
--- a/python/freetoken/engine/engine.py
+++ b/python/freetoken/engine/engine.py
@@ -425,7 +425,17 @@ def __init__(self, config: EngineConfig):
             self._warmup_prefill()
 
     def _init_communication(self, config: EngineConfig) -> torch.distributed.ProcessGroup:
-        if config.tp_info.size == 1 or config.use_pynccl:
+        use_pynccl = config.use_pynccl
+        if config.tp_info.size > 1 and use_pynccl:
+            from freetoken.kernel.backend import is_rocm
+
+            if is_rocm():
+                logger.warning_rank0(
+                    "PyNCCL is NVIDIA-only; using PyTorch's ROCm/RCCL process group instead"
+                )
+                use_pynccl = False
+
+        if config.tp_info.size == 1 or use_pynccl:
             torch.distributed.init_process_group(
                 backend="gloo",
                 rank=config.tp_info.rank,
diff --git a/tests/engine/test_rocm_communication.py b/tests/engine/test_rocm_communication.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..665eb67c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/engine/test_rocm_communication.py
@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+from types import SimpleNamespace
+
+import torch
+
+import freetoken.engine.engine as engine_module
+import freetoken.kernel.backend as kernel_backend
+from freetoken.engine.engine import Engine
+
+
+def _config(*, use_pynccl: bool = True):
+    return SimpleNamespace(
+        use_pynccl=use_pynccl,
+        tp_info=SimpleNamespace(size=2, rank=0),
+        distributed_timeout=10,
+        distributed_addr="tcp://127.0.0.1:29500",
+        max_forward_len=32,
+        model_config=SimpleNamespace(hidden_size=64),
+    )
+
+
+def test_rocm_routes_tensor_parallel_communication_to_rccl(monkeypatch):
+    calls = []
+    cpu_group = object()
+
+    def reject_pynccl(*_args):
+        raise AssertionError("PyNCCL selected on ROCm")
+
+    monkeypatch.setattr(kernel_backend, "is_rocm", lambda: True)
+    monkeypatch.setattr(
+        torch.distributed,
+        "init_process_group",
+        lambda **kwargs: calls.append(("init", kwargs)),
+    )
+    monkeypatch.setattr(
+        torch.distributed,
+        "new_group",
+        lambda **kwargs: calls.append(("new", kwargs)) or cpu_group,
+    )
+    monkeypatch.setattr(engine_module, "enable_pynccl_distributed", reject_pynccl)
+
+    result = Engine._init_communication(SimpleNamespace(), _config())
+
+    assert result is cpu_group
+    assert calls[0][1]["backend"] == "nccl"
+    assert calls[1] == ("new", {"backend": "gloo"})
+
+
+def test_cuda_keeps_custom_pynccl_path(monkeypatch):
+    calls = []
+    world_group = object()
+
+    def reject_new_group(**_kwargs):
+        raise AssertionError("unexpected RCCL path")
+
+    monkeypatch.setattr(kernel_backend, "is_rocm", lambda: False)
+    monkeypatch.setattr(
+        torch.distributed,
+        "init_process_group",
+        lambda **kwargs: calls.append(("init", kwargs)),
+    )
+    monkeypatch.setattr(torch.distributed, "group", SimpleNamespace(WORLD=world_group))
+    monkeypatch.setattr(torch.distributed, "new_group", reject_new_group)
+    monkeypatch.setattr(
+        engine_module,
+        "enable_pynccl_distributed",
+        lambda *args: calls.append(("pynccl", args)),
+    )
+
+    engine = SimpleNamespace(dtype=torch.float16)
+    result = Engine._init_communication(engine, _config())
+
+    assert result is world_group
+    assert calls[0][1]["backend"] == "gloo"
+    assert calls[1][0] == "pynccl"