diff --git a/botorch/posteriors/multitask.py b/botorch/posteriors/multitask.py
index 03a6267dbc..76a2df43d4 100644
--- a/botorch/posteriors/multitask.py
+++ b/botorch/posteriors/multitask.py
@@ -36,9 +36,11 @@ def __init__(
             distribution: Posterior multivariate normal distribution.
             joint_covariance_matrix: Joint test train covariance matrix over the entire
                 tensor.
-            train_train_covar: Covariance matrix of train points in the data space.
-            test_obs_covar: Covariance matrix of test x train points in the data space.
+            test_train_covar: Covariance matrix of test x train points in the data
+                space.
             train_diff: Difference between train mean and train responses.
+            test_mean: Test mean response.
+            train_train_covar: Covariance matrix of train points in the data space.
             train_noise: Training noise covariance.
             test_noise: Only used if posterior should contain observation noise.
                 Testing noise covariance.
@@ -226,7 +228,9 @@ def rsample_from_base_samples(
             train_diff.reshape(*train_diff.shape[:-2], -1) - updated_obs_samples
         )
         train_covar_plus_noise = self.train_train_covar + self.train_noise
-        obs_solve = train_covar_plus_noise.solve(obs_minus_samples.unsqueeze(-1))
+        obs_solve = _permute_solve(
+            train_covar_plus_noise, obs_minus_samples.unsqueeze(-1)
+        )
 
         # and multiply the test-observed matrix against the result of the solve
         updated_samples = self.test_train_covar.matmul(obs_solve).squeeze(-1)
@@ -286,3 +290,37 @@ def _draw_from_base_covar(
         res = covar_root.matmul(base_samples)
 
         return res.squeeze(-1)
+
+
+def _permute_solve(A: LinearOperator, b: Tensor) -> LinearOperator:
+    r"""Solve the batched linear system AX = b, where b is a batched column
+    vector. The solve is carried out after permuting the largest batch
+    dimension of b to the final position, which results in a more efficient
+    matrix-matrix solve.
+
+    This ideally should be handled upstream (in GPyTorch, linear_operator or
+    PyTorch), after which any uses of this method can be replaced with
+    `A.solve(b)`.
+
+    Args:
+        A: LinearOperator of shape (n, n)
+        b: Tensor of shape (..., n, 1)
+
+    Returns:
+        LinearOperator of shape (..., n, 1)
+    """
+    # permute dimensions to move largest batch dimension to the end (more efficient
+    # than unsqueezing)
+    perm = list(range(b.ndim))
+    if b.ndim > 2:
+        largest_batch_dim, _ = max(enumerate(b.shape[:-2]), key=lambda t: t[1])
+        perm[-1], perm[largest_batch_dim] = perm[largest_batch_dim], perm[-1]
+    b_p = b.permute(*perm)
+
+    x_p = A.solve(b_p)
+
+    # Undo permutation
+    inverse_perm = torch.argsort(torch.tensor(perm))
+    x = x_p.permute(*inverse_perm)
+
+    return x
diff --git a/test/posteriors/test_multitask.py b/test/posteriors/test_multitask.py
index 42913d3ef7..1b6c6b7dbc 100644
--- a/test/posteriors/test_multitask.py
+++ b/test/posteriors/test_multitask.py
@@ -8,9 +8,10 @@
 import torch
 from botorch.exceptions.errors import BotorchTensorDimensionError
 from botorch.models.multitask import KroneckerMultiTaskGP
-from botorch.posteriors.multitask import MultitaskGPPosterior
+from botorch.posteriors.multitask import _permute_solve, MultitaskGPPosterior
 from botorch.sampling.normal import IIDNormalSampler
 from botorch.utils.testing import BotorchTestCase
+from linear_operator.operators import to_linear_operator
 
 
 def get_posterior_test_cases(
@@ -41,7 +42,6 @@ def get_posterior_test_cases(
 
 
 class TestMultitaskGPPosterior(BotorchTestCase):
-
     def _test_MultitaskGPPosterior(self, dtype: torch.dtype) -> None:
         post_list = get_posterior_test_cases(device=self.device, dtype=dtype)
         sample_shaping = torch.Size([5, 3])
@@ -189,3 +189,23 @@ def test_draw_from_base_covar(self):
         base_samples = torch.randn(4, 10, 1, device=self.device)
         with self.assertRaises(RuntimeError):
             res = posterior._draw_from_base_covar(sym_mat, base_samples)
+
+
+class TestPermuteSolve(BotorchTestCase):
+    def test_permute_solve_tensor(self):
+        # Random PSD matrix
+        a = torch.randn(32, 32, device=self.device, dtype=torch.float64)
+        A = torch.mm(a, a.t())
+
+        # Random batched column vector
+        b = torch.randn(4, 1, 32, 1, device=self.device, dtype=torch.float64)
+
+        # Compare results of permuted and standard solve
+        x_1 = _permute_solve(to_linear_operator(A), b)
+        x_2 = torch.linalg.solve(A, b)
+        self.assertAllClose(x_1, x_2)
+
+        # Ensure also works if b is not batched
+        x_1 = _permute_solve(to_linear_operator(A), b[0, 0, :, :])
+        x_2 = torch.linalg.solve(A, b[0, 0, :, :])
+        self.assertAllClose(x_1, x_2)