diff --git a/.github/workflows/build_and_test.yml b/.github/workflows/build_and_test.yml
index d1472771..d7f7e230 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build_and_test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build_and_test.yml
@@ -97,3 +97,11 @@ jobs:
     - name: Run lit tests
       run: |
         cmake --build ${SUBSTRAIT_MLIR_MAIN_BINARY_DIR} --target check-substrait-mlir
+
+    # Run this as part of the `build` job because we need the `build` folder.
+    - name: Run pyright to test if typing annotations are correct
+      uses: jakebailey/pyright-action@v2
+      with:
+        stats: true
+        working-directory: substrait-mlir
+        project: pyproject.toml
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..4895e50b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+[tool.pyright]
+
+# Point `pyright` to the built files rather than those in the source tree
+# because relative imports won't work in the latter case. (They work in the
+# former because the build process copies files from several places.)
+include = [
+  'test/python/',
+  'build/tools/substrait_mlir/python_packages/substrait_mlir/dialects/substrait.py',
+  'build/tools/substrait_mlir/python_packages/substrait_mlir/_mlir_libs/_substraitDialects/',
+  ]
+
+exclude = [
+  '**/lit.cfg.py',
+  ]
+
+extraPaths = [
+  'build/tools/mlir/python_packages/',
+  'build/tools/substrait_mlir/python_packages/',
+  ]