diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/pmix/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/pmix/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..c8d8be4e8cbf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/pmix/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, perl, autoconf, automake
+, libtool, flex, libevent, hwloc, munge, zlib
+} :
+
+let
+  version = "3.1.5";
+
+in stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  pname = "pmix";
+  inherit version;
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    repo = "openpmix";
+    owner = "openpmix";
+    rev = "v${version}";
+    sha256 = "0fvfsig20amcigyn4v3gcdxc0jif44vqg37b8zzh0s8jqqj7jz5w";
+  };
+
+  postPatch = ''
+    patchShebangs ./autogen.pl
+    patchShebangs ./config
+  '';
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ perl autoconf automake libtool flex ];
+
+  buildInputs = [ libevent hwloc munge zlib ];
+
+  configureFlags = [
+    "--with-libevent=${libevent.dev}"
+    "--with-munge=${munge}"
+    "--with-hwloc=${hwloc.dev}"
+  ];
+
+  preConfigure = ''
+    ./autogen.pl
+  '';
+
+  enableParallelBuilding = true;
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "Process Management Interface for HPC environments";
+    homepage = "https://openpmix.github.io/";
+    license = licenses.bsd3;
+    maintainers = [ maintainers.markuskowa ];
+    platforms = platforms.linux;
+  };
+}
+
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 010f5c489e15..5a7a686857d2 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -6138,6 +6138,8 @@ in
 
   pmacct = callPackage ../tools/networking/pmacct { };
 
+  pmix = callPackage ../development/libraries/pmix { };
+
   polygraph = callPackage ../tools/networking/polygraph { };
 
   progress = callPackage ../tools/misc/progress { };