diff --git a/.buildkite/pipeline.yml b/.buildkite/pipeline.yml
index e7f446333..01358dc04 100644
--- a/.buildkite/pipeline.yml
+++ b/.buildkite/pipeline.yml
@@ -433,7 +433,7 @@ steps:
     steps:
       - label: "Submit and Monitor sbatch Job on Caltech HPC"
         # check that (1) the script can be succesfully submitted, (2) it runs successfully
-        command: "../test/mpi_tests/test_sbatch_script.sh"
+        command: "test/mpi_tests/test_sbatch_script.sh"
         agents:
           slurm_ntasks: 1