diff --git a/tests/integration/post_training/test_post_training.py b/tests/integration/post_training/test_post_training.py
index 002da1160..f9c797593 100644
--- a/tests/integration/post_training/test_post_training.py
+++ b/tests/integration/post_training/test_post_training.py
@@ -70,7 +70,6 @@ class TestPostTraining:
         ],
     )
     @pytest.mark.timeout(360)  # 6 minutes timeout
-    @skip_because_resource_intensive
     def test_supervised_fine_tune(self, llama_stack_client, purpose, source):
         logger.info("Starting supervised fine-tuning test")
 
@@ -111,7 +110,7 @@ class TestPostTraining:
         # train with HF trl SFTTrainer as the default
         _ = llama_stack_client.post_training.supervised_fine_tune(
             job_uuid=job_uuid,
-            model="ibm-granite/granite-3.3-2b-instruct",
+            model="HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-135M-Instruct",  # smaller model that supports the current sft recipe
             algorithm_config=algorithm_config,
             training_config=training_config,
             hyperparam_search_config={},