diff --git a/.github/workflows/build_images.yaml b/.github/workflows/build_images.yaml
index 4b7881e806..dd9a0735e0 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build_images.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build_images.yaml
@@ -61,6 +61,16 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           git rev-parse HEAD > ./ci/docker/context/COMMIT_SHA
           git log -n1 --pretty='%ct' > ./ci/docker/context/COMMIT_TIME
+      # cpp/include and cpp/src aren't in the pip wheel; cuopt_jni.cpp needs both (the latter for
+      # internal headers like pdlp/cuopt_c_internal.hpp) to build the JNI library in-image.
+      - name: Stage Java sources for the in-image dynamic build
+        run: |
+          mkdir -p ./ci/docker/context/repo
+          cp -r ./java ./ci/docker/context/repo/java
+          mkdir -p ./ci/docker/context/repo/cpp
+          cp -r ./cpp/include ./ci/docker/context/repo/cpp/include
+          cp -r ./cpp/src ./ci/docker/context/repo/cpp/src
+          cp ./ci/docker/build_java_dynamic.sh ./ci/docker/context/build_java_dynamic.sh
       - name: Login to NGC
         uses: docker/login-action@c94ce9fb468520275223c153574b00df6fe4bcc9 # v3.7.0
         with:
diff --git a/ci/docker/Dockerfile b/ci/docker/Dockerfile
index 5c6e4c3b39..8bfa48ed0c 100644
--- a/ci/docker/Dockerfile
+++ b/ci/docker/Dockerfile
@@ -89,10 +89,37 @@ RUN \
     && apt-get purge -y --autoremove gcc \
     && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
 
+# Own stage so the build toolchain doesn't persist into cuopt-final. See build_java_dynamic.sh.
+FROM install-env AS java-build
+
+ARG PYTHON_SHORT_VER
+
+RUN apt-get update \
+    && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
+        openjdk-17-jdk \
+        build-essential \
+        cmake \
+    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+
+# CMake's find_package(CUDAToolkit REQUIRED) needs nvcc on PATH; reuse cuda-headers instead of
+# installing the toolkit again via apt.
+COPY --from=cuda-headers /usr/local/cuda /usr/local/cuda
+ENV PATH="/usr/local/cuda/bin:${PATH}"
+
+COPY ./repo /build/repo
+COPY ./build_java_dynamic.sh /build/build_java_dynamic.sh
+RUN bash /build/build_java_dynamic.sh /build/repo \
+      "/usr/local/lib/python${PYTHON_SHORT_VER}/dist-packages/libcuopt" /opt/cuopt/java
+
 FROM install-env AS cuopt-final
 
 ARG PYTHON_SHORT_VER
 
+# Headless JRE to run the Java bindings; version matches java/cuopt/pom.xml's maven.compiler.release.
+RUN apt-get update \
+    && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends openjdk-17-jre-headless \
+    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+
 # Make cuopt_grpc_server, cuopt_cli, and shared libraries available to all processes
 # (profile.d scripts are only sourced by login shells; ENV works for all containers)
 ENV PATH="/usr/local/cuda/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/nvidia/bin/:/usr/local/lib/python${PYTHON_SHORT_VER}/dist-packages/libcuopt/bin:${PATH}"
@@ -119,6 +146,8 @@ COPY --from=cuda-libs /usr/local/cuda/lib64/libnvJitLink* /usr/local/cuda/lib64/
 # Copy CUDA headers needed for runtime compilation (e.g., CuPy NVRTC).
 COPY --from=cuda-headers /usr/local/cuda/include/ /usr/local/cuda/include/
 
+COPY --from=java-build /opt/cuopt/java /opt/cuopt/java
+
 # Entrypoint supports server selection:
 #   Default:                  Python REST server
 #   CUOPT_SERVER_TYPE=grpc:   gRPC server (uses CUOPT_SERVER_PORT, CUOPT_GPU_COUNT)
diff --git a/ci/docker/Dockerfile.ubi b/ci/docker/Dockerfile.ubi
index 5668d7864f..fb208ca5a8 100644
--- a/ci/docker/Dockerfile.ubi
+++ b/ci/docker/Dockerfile.ubi
@@ -61,8 +61,27 @@ RUN \
     dnf clean all && \
     ln -sf /usr/bin/python3.14 /usr/bin/python
 
+# Own stage so the build toolchain doesn't persist into cuopt-final. See build_java_dynamic.sh.
+FROM install-env AS java-build
+
+# No java-17-openjdk on UBI10 AppStream (only 21, 25); 21 satisfies the JDK 17+ requirement.
+RUN dnf install -y java-21-openjdk-devel cmake gcc-c++ make && dnf clean all
+
+# CMake's find_package(CUDAToolkit REQUIRED) needs nvcc on PATH; reuse cuda-headers instead of
+# installing the toolkit again via dnf.
+COPY --from=cuda-headers /usr/local/cuda /usr/local/cuda
+ENV PATH="/usr/local/cuda/bin:${PATH}"
+
+COPY ./repo /build/repo
+COPY ./build_java_dynamic.sh /build/build_java_dynamic.sh
+RUN bash /build/build_java_dynamic.sh /build/repo \
+      /usr/local/lib64/python3.14/site-packages/libcuopt /opt/cuopt/java
+
 FROM install-env AS cuopt-final
 
+# Headless JRE to run the Java bindings; version matches java/cuopt/pom.xml's maven.compiler.release.
+RUN dnf install -y java-21-openjdk-headless && dnf clean all
+
 # Register python via alternatives so the system alternatives database is
 # consistent with the /usr/bin/python symlink created in install-env.
 # NOTE: do NOT register python3 → python3.14 here: /usr/bin/dnf uses
@@ -110,6 +129,8 @@ COPY --from=cuda-libs /usr/local/cuda/lib64/libnvJitLink* /usr/local/cuda/lib64/
 # Copy CUDA headers needed for runtime compilation (e.g., CuPy NVRTC)
 COPY --from=cuda-headers /usr/local/cuda/include/ /usr/local/cuda/include/
 
+COPY --from=java-build /opt/cuopt/java /opt/cuopt/java
+
 COPY ./entrypoint.sh /opt/cuopt/entrypoint.sh
 ENTRYPOINT ["/opt/cuopt/entrypoint.sh"]
 CMD ["python", "-m", "cuopt_server.cuopt_service"]
diff --git a/ci/docker/build_java_dynamic.sh b/ci/docker/build_java_dynamic.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d94a77660a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ci/docker/build_java_dynamic.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright (c) 2026, NVIDIA CORPORATION & AFFILIATES. All rights reserved.
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+
+# Builds libcuopt_jni.so against the pip-installed libcuopt.so and compiles the Java classes with
+# javac (java/cuopt/pom.xml has no non-test dependency, so Maven isn't needed). Writes cuopt.jar
+# and libcuopt_jni.so to OUT_DIR.
+
+set -euo pipefail
+
+REPO_ROOT="${1:?missing repo root}"
+CUOPT_SITE_PACKAGES="${2:?missing path to the pip-installed libcuopt package, e.g. /usr/local/lib/python3.14/dist-packages/libcuopt}"
+OUT_DIR="${3:?missing output directory}"
+
+if [[ ! -f "${CUOPT_SITE_PACKAGES}/lib64/libcuopt.so" ]]; then
+  echo "libcuopt.so not found under ${CUOPT_SITE_PACKAGES}/lib64; is libcuopt pip-installed yet?" >&2
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+# libcuopt.so resolves its own dependencies (TBB, NCCL, cuDSS, rmm, rapids_logger, cublas, ...)
+# via RPATH, so cuopt_jni.so only needs to find libcuopt.so itself -- CUOPT_RUNTIME_LIBRARY_DIR
+# bakes that into its RPATH too, no LD_LIBRARY_PATH needed.
+export CUOPT_PREFIX="${CUOPT_SITE_PACKAGES}"
+export CUOPT_LIBRARY="${CUOPT_SITE_PACKAGES}/lib64/libcuopt.so"
+export CUOPT_RUNTIME_LIBRARY_DIR="${CUOPT_SITE_PACKAGES}/lib64"
+# rmm and rapids_logger are separate pip packages with their own include dirs (unlike conda,
+# where CUOPT_PREFIX/include/rapids covers all three).
+PIP_SITE_PACKAGES="$(dirname "${CUOPT_SITE_PACKAGES}")"
+export CUOPT_EXTRA_INCLUDE_DIRS="${REPO_ROOT}/cpp/include;${REPO_ROOT}/cpp/src;${PIP_SITE_PACKAGES}/librmm/include;${PIP_SITE_PACKAGES}/rapids_logger/include"
+export CUOPT_JAVA_NATIVE_BUILD_DIR="${REPO_ROOT}/java/cuopt/build/native"
+
+cd "${REPO_ROOT}"
+bash java/cuopt/scripts/build_native.sh
+
+GEN_SRC_DIR="${REPO_ROOT}/java/cuopt/target/generated-sources/cuopt"
+bash java/cuopt/scripts/generate_constants.sh \
+  "${REPO_ROOT}/cpp/include/cuopt/mathematical_optimization/constants.h" \
+  "${GEN_SRC_DIR}"
+
+CLASSES_DIR="$(mktemp -d)"
+mapfile -t JAVA_SOURCES < <(find "${REPO_ROOT}/java/cuopt/src/main/java" "${GEN_SRC_DIR}" -name '*.java')
+javac -d "${CLASSES_DIR}" --release 17 "${JAVA_SOURCES[@]}"
+
+mkdir -p "${OUT_DIR}"
+jar cf "${OUT_DIR}/cuopt.jar" -C "${CLASSES_DIR}" .
+cp "${CUOPT_JAVA_NATIVE_BUILD_DIR}/libcuopt_jni.so" "${OUT_DIR}/"
+rm -rf "${CLASSES_DIR}"
+
+echo "Wrote ${OUT_DIR}/cuopt.jar and ${OUT_DIR}/libcuopt_jni.so"