diff --git a/src/speculators/convert/eagle/eagle3_converter.py b/src/speculators/convert/eagle/eagle3_converter.py
index ffe3985..52d070b 100644
--- a/src/speculators/convert/eagle/eagle3_converter.py
+++ b/src/speculators/convert/eagle/eagle3_converter.py
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ def _create_transformer_config_from_eagle(
             vocab_size=eagle_config.get("target_vocab_size", 128000),
             hidden_size=eagle_config.get("hidden_size", 4096),
             intermediate_size=eagle_config.get("intermediate_size", 11008),
-            num_hidden_layers=1,
+            num_hidden_layers=eagle_config.get("num_hidden_layers", 1),
             num_attention_heads=eagle_config.get("num_attention_heads", 32),
             num_key_value_heads=eagle_config.get("num_key_value_heads", 8),
             hidden_act=eagle_config.get("hidden_act", "silu"),
diff --git a/tests/unit/convert/test_eagle3_converter.py b/tests/unit/convert/test_eagle3_converter.py
index 75080e1..23e3a07 100644
--- a/tests/unit/convert/test_eagle3_converter.py
+++ b/tests/unit/convert/test_eagle3_converter.py
@@ -93,6 +93,44 @@ def test_config_max_position_embeddings_logic(
         # rope_theta comes from Eagle3 config, not verifier
         assert llama_config.rope_theta == 10000.0
 
+    @pytest.mark.sanity
+    @patch(
+        "speculators.convert.eagle.eagle3_converter.PretrainedConfig.get_config_dict"
+    )
+    def test_config_num_hidden_layers_from_config(
+        self, mock_get_config, sample_eagle3_config
+    ):
+        """Test that num_hidden_layers is taken from eagle_config when present."""
+        mock_get_config.return_value = ({}, None)
+        converter = Eagle3Converter()
+
+        # Add num_hidden_layers to the sample config
+        sample_eagle3_config["num_hidden_layers"] = 3
+
+        llama_config = converter._create_transformer_config_from_eagle(
+            sample_eagle3_config, "meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B"
+        )
+        assert llama_config.num_hidden_layers == 3
+
+    @pytest.mark.sanity
+    @patch(
+        "speculators.convert.eagle.eagle3_converter.PretrainedConfig.get_config_dict"
+    )
+    def test_config_num_hidden_layers_default(
+        self, mock_get_config, sample_eagle3_config
+    ):
+        """Test that num_hidden_layers defaults to 1 when not in config."""
+        mock_get_config.return_value = ({}, None)
+        converter = Eagle3Converter()
+
+        # Remove num_hidden_layers if present
+        sample_eagle3_config.pop("num_hidden_layers", None)
+
+        llama_config = converter._create_transformer_config_from_eagle(
+            sample_eagle3_config, "meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B"
+        )
+        assert llama_config.num_hidden_layers == 1
+
     @pytest.mark.sanity
     @patch(
         "speculators.convert.eagle.eagle3_converter.PretrainedConfig.get_config_dict"