diff --git a/pyoutline/outline/backend/cue.py b/pyoutline/outline/backend/cue.py
index 1d91eb70a..cfb003fad 100644
--- a/pyoutline/outline/backend/cue.py
+++ b/pyoutline/outline/backend/cue.py
@@ -330,6 +330,18 @@ def _serialize(launcher, use_pycuerun):
             else:
                 _warning_spec_version(spec_version, "timeout_llu")
 
+        if layer.get_arg("gpus"):
+            if spec_version >= Version("1.12"):
+                sub_element(spec_layer, "gpus", "%d" % (layer.get_arg("gpus")))
+            else:
+                _warning_spec_version(spec_version, "gpus")
+
+        if layer.get_arg("gpu_memory"):
+            if spec_version >= Version("1.12"):
+                sub_element(spec_layer, "gpu_memory", "%s" % (layer.get_arg("gpu_memory")))
+            else:
+                _warning_spec_version(spec_version, "gpu_memory")
+
         if os.environ.get("OL_TAG_OVERRIDE", False):
             sub_element(spec_layer, "tags",
                         scrub_tags(os.environ["OL_TAG_OVERRIDE"]))
diff --git a/pyoutline/outline/plugins/local.py b/pyoutline/outline/plugins/local.py
index c0bc1fd17..29b6dbdf0 100644
--- a/pyoutline/outline/plugins/local.py
+++ b/pyoutline/outline/plugins/local.py
@@ -112,7 +112,8 @@ def setup_local_cores(e):
                                   "cores": str(USE_LOCAL_CORES),
                                   "memory": get_half_host_memory(),
                                   "threads": str(threads),
-                                  "gpu": str(0)})
+                                  "gpus": str(0),
+                                  "gpu_memory": str(0)})
 
 
 def get_half_host_memory():
diff --git a/pyoutline/tests/specver_test.py b/pyoutline/tests/specver_test.py
index 24d92df07..9889e0ae9 100644
--- a/pyoutline/tests/specver_test.py
+++ b/pyoutline/tests/specver_test.py
@@ -61,3 +61,24 @@ def test_1_11(self):
         self.assertEqual(root.find("job/layers/layer/timeout").text, "420")
         self.assertEqual(root.find("job/layers/layer/timeout_llu").text, "4200")
         self.assertEqual(root.find("job/priority").text, "42")
+
+    def _makeGpuSpec(self):
+        ol = outline.Outline(name="spec_version_test")
+        layer = outline.modules.shell.Shell("test_layer", command=["/bin/ls"])
+        layer.set_arg("gpus", 4)
+        layer.set_arg("gpu_memory", 8 * 1024 * 1024)
+        ol.add_layer(layer)
+        l = outline.cuerun.OutlineLauncher(ol)
+        return Et.fromstring(l.serialize())
+
+    def test_gpu_1_11(self):
+        outline.config.set("outline", "spec_version", "1.11")
+        root = self._makeGpuSpec()
+        self.assertIsNone(root.find("job/layers/layer/gpus"))
+        self.assertIsNone(root.find("job/layers/layer/gpus_memory"))
+
+    def test_gpu_1_12(self):
+        outline.config.set("outline", "spec_version", "1.12")
+        root = self._makeGpuSpec()
+        self.assertEqual(root.find("job/layers/layer/gpus").text, "4")
+        self.assertEqual(root.find("job/layers/layer/gpu_memory").text, "8388608")