diff --git a/src/bindings/python/flux/job/validator/plugins/jobspec.py b/src/bindings/python/flux/job/validator/plugins/jobspec.py
index 54e57fd8d19b..7af57667a334 100644
--- a/src/bindings/python/flux/job/validator/plugins/jobspec.py
+++ b/src/bindings/python/flux/job/validator/plugins/jobspec.py
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 
 import json
 
+from flux.cli.plugin import CLIPluginRegistry
 from flux.job import validate_jobspec
 from flux.job.validator import ValidatorPlugin
 
@@ -24,6 +25,7 @@
 class Validator(ValidatorPlugin):
     def __init__(self, parser):
         self.require_version = 1
+        self.plugins = []
         parser.add_argument(
             "--require-version",
             metavar="V",
@@ -47,5 +49,12 @@ def configure(self, args):
                 raise ValueError(f"Invalid argument to --require-version")
             self.require_version = None
 
+        self.plugins = CLIPluginRegistry().load_plugins("validate")
+
     def validate(self, args):
-        validate_jobspec(json.dumps(args.jobspec), self.require_version)
+        result, jobspec = validate_jobspec(
+            json.dumps(args.jobspec), self.require_version
+        )
+
+        # validate with any submit cli plugin validate methods
+        self.plugins.validate(jobspec)