diff --git a/metaflow/plugins/pypi/conda_environment.py b/metaflow/plugins/pypi/conda_environment.py
index 292d1fb7535..6c5973b1270 100644
--- a/metaflow/plugins/pypi/conda_environment.py
+++ b/metaflow/plugins/pypi/conda_environment.py
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ def validate_environment(self, logger, datastore_type):
         # Initialize necessary virtual environments for all Metaflow tasks.
         # Use Micromamba for solving conda packages and Pip for solving pypi packages.
         from .micromamba import Micromamba
-        from .pip import Pip
+        from .pip_resolver import Pip
 
         print_lock = threading.Lock()
 
diff --git a/metaflow/plugins/pypi/pip_patcher.py b/metaflow/plugins/pypi/pip_patcher.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..11cf2c314e9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/metaflow/plugins/pypi/pip_patcher.py
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+from unittest.mock import patch
+import os
+import sys
+
+
+# Because Pip does not offer a direct way to set target platform_system and platform_machine values for resolving packages transitive dependencies, we need to instead
+# manually patch the correct target architecture values for pip to be able to resolve the whole dependency tree successfully.
+# This is necessary for packages that have conditional dependencies dependent on machine/system, e.g. Torch
+@patch(
+    "platform.machine", lambda: os.environ.get("PIP_PATCH_MACHINE", os.uname().machine)
+)
+@patch(
+    "platform.system", lambda: os.environ.get("PIP_PATCH_SYSTEM", os.uname().sysname)
+)
+def _main(args):
+    # TODO: Pip has deprecated using script wrappers for the cli. this will break in the future, and make patching the sys internals much harder
+    from pip import main
+
+    exitcode = main(args)
+    sys.exit(exitcode)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    _main(sys.argv[1:])
diff --git a/metaflow/plugins/pypi/pip.py b/metaflow/plugins/pypi/pip_resolver.py
similarity index 97%
rename from metaflow/plugins/pypi/pip.py
rename to metaflow/plugins/pypi/pip_resolver.py
index 5aeb03ec5f4..3c24ee76e93 100644
--- a/metaflow/plugins/pypi/pip.py
+++ b/metaflow/plugins/pypi/pip_resolver.py
@@ -102,7 +102,10 @@ def solve(self, id_, packages, python, platform):
                 else:
                     cmd.append(f"{package}=={version}")
             try:
-                self._call(prefix, cmd)
+                env = {}
+                if platform == "linux-64":
+                    env = {"PIP_PATCH_SYSTEM": "Linux", "PIP_PATCH_MACHINE": "x86_64"}
+                self._call(prefix, cmd, env)
             except PipPackageNotFound as ex:
                 # pretty print package errors
                 raise PipException(
@@ -306,7 +309,8 @@ def _call(self, prefix, args, env=None, isolated=True):
                         "run",
                         "--prefix",
                         prefix,
-                        "pip3",
+                        "python",
+                        os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "pip_patcher.py"),
                         "--disable-pip-version-check",
                         "--no-color",
                     ]