diff --git a/tensorflow/compiler/jit/mark_for_compilation_pass.cc b/tensorflow/compiler/jit/mark_for_compilation_pass.cc
index 77496fe7960..cb74d135418 100644
--- a/tensorflow/compiler/jit/mark_for_compilation_pass.cc
+++ b/tensorflow/compiler/jit/mark_for_compilation_pass.cc
@@ -1891,6 +1891,7 @@ absl::flat_hash_set<string> GetKnownXLAWhitelistOp() {
                                      "DynamicStitch",
                                      "Einsum",
                                      "EmptyTensorList",
+                                     "EnsureShape",
                                      "ExtractImagePatches",
                                      "Igamma",
                                      "IgammaGradA",
diff --git a/tensorflow/compiler/tests/BUILD b/tensorflow/compiler/tests/BUILD
index 5325addc8df..f830e4c1967 100644
--- a/tensorflow/compiler/tests/BUILD
+++ b/tensorflow/compiler/tests/BUILD
@@ -1846,3 +1846,20 @@ tf_xla_py_test(
         "@absl_py//absl/testing:parameterized",
     ],
 )
+
+tf_xla_py_test(
+    name = "ensure_shape_op_test",
+    size = "medium",
+    srcs = ["ensure_shape_op_test.py"],
+    python_version = "PY3",
+    tags = [
+        "no_pip",  # TODO(b/149738646): fix pip install so these tests run on kokoro pip
+        "optonly",
+    ],
+    deps = [
+        ":xla_test",
+        "//tensorflow/python:array_ops",
+        "//tensorflow/python:framework",
+        "//tensorflow/python:platform_test",
+    ],
+)
diff --git a/tensorflow/compiler/tests/ensure_shape_op_test.py b/tensorflow/compiler/tests/ensure_shape_op_test.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..95de5a9c49b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tensorflow/compiler/tests/ensure_shape_op_test.py
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+# Copyright 2016 The TensorFlow Authors. All Rights Reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+# ==============================================================================
+"""Tests for ensure_shape_op."""
+
+from __future__ import absolute_import
+from __future__ import division
+from __future__ import print_function
+
+from tensorflow.compiler.tests import xla_test
+from tensorflow.python.framework import dtypes
+from tensorflow.python.framework import errors_impl
+from tensorflow.python.ops import array_ops
+from tensorflow.python.ops import check_ops
+from tensorflow.python.platform import test
+
+
+class EnsureShapeOpTest(xla_test.XLATestCase):
+
+  def testEnsureShape(self):
+    with self.session() as sess:
+      p = array_ops.placeholder(dtypes.int32)
+      with self.test_scope():
+        op = check_ops.ensure_shape(p, (None, 3))
+      expected_out = [[0, 1, 2], [3, 4, 5], [6, 7, 8]]
+      self.assertAllEqual(expected_out,
+                          sess.run(op, {p: [[0, 1, 2], [3, 4, 5], [6, 7, 8]]}))
+
+  def testInvalidEnsureShape(self):
+    with self.session() as sess:
+      p = array_ops.placeholder(dtypes.int32)
+      with self.test_scope():
+        op = check_ops.ensure_shape(p, (None, 3, 3))
+      with self.assertRaisesRegexp(errors_impl.InvalidArgumentError,
+                                   "is not compatible with expected shape"):
+        sess.run(op, {p: [[0, 1, 2], [3, 4, 5], [6, 7, 8]]})
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+  test.main()
diff --git a/tensorflow/compiler/tf2xla/kernels/BUILD b/tensorflow/compiler/tf2xla/kernels/BUILD
index dbb420b14fd..4780bd7455e 100644
--- a/tensorflow/compiler/tf2xla/kernels/BUILD
+++ b/tensorflow/compiler/tf2xla/kernels/BUILD
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ tf_kernel_library(
         "elu_op.cc",
         "elu_op.h",
         "empty_op.cc",
+        "ensure_shape_op.cc",
         "extract_image_patches_op.cc",
         "fake_param_op.cc",
         "fake_quantize_ops.cc",
diff --git a/tensorflow/compiler/tf2xla/kernels/ensure_shape_op.cc b/tensorflow/compiler/tf2xla/kernels/ensure_shape_op.cc
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..8221327d36f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tensorflow/compiler/tf2xla/kernels/ensure_shape_op.cc
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+/* Copyright 2020 The TensorFlow Authors. All Rights Reserved.
+
+Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+limitations under the License.
+==============================================================================*/
+
+// XLA-specific ensure_shape Op.
+
+#include "tensorflow/compiler/tf2xla/type_util.h"
+#include "tensorflow/compiler/tf2xla/xla_helpers.h"
+#include "tensorflow/compiler/tf2xla/xla_op_kernel.h"
+#include "tensorflow/compiler/tf2xla/xla_op_registry.h"
+#include "tensorflow/compiler/xla/client/xla_builder.h"
+#include "tensorflow/compiler/xla/literal.h"
+#include "tensorflow/core/framework/op_kernel.h"
+#include "tensorflow/core/framework/register_types.h"
+#include "tensorflow/core/framework/tensor.h"
+
+namespace tensorflow {
+namespace {
+
+class EnsureShapeOp : public XlaOpKernel {
+ public:
+  explicit EnsureShapeOp(OpKernelConstruction* ctx) : XlaOpKernel(ctx) {
+    OP_REQUIRES_OK(ctx, ctx->GetAttr("shape", &expected_shape_));
+  }
+
+  void Compile(XlaOpKernelContext* ctx) override {
+    const TensorShape shape = ctx->InputShape(0);
+
+    // valiate shape
+    OP_REQUIRES(
+        ctx, expected_shape_.IsCompatibleWith(shape),
+        errors::InvalidArgument("Shape of tensor ", this->def().input(0), " ",
+                                shape.DebugString(),
+                                " is not compatible with expected shape ",
+                                expected_shape_.DebugString(), "."));
+
+    // If shape matches, outputs the tensor.
+    ctx->SetOutput(0, ctx->Input(0));
+  }
+
+ private:
+  PartialTensorShape expected_shape_;
+};
+
+REGISTER_XLA_OP(Name("EnsureShape"), EnsureShapeOp);
+
+}  // namespace
+}  // namespace tensorflow