diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml b/.circleci/config.yml
index 70e5dddbaba04915b7c16a09e4472f6fef033aad..61e8b2331beb272b356671aeee9e47cbdc8b941a 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ jobs:
             #
             # Also limit the number of concurrent jobs because of resource
             # constraints on CircleCI. :/
-            nix-build --jobs 1 --argstr hypothesisProfile ci --arg collectCoverage true --attr doc
+            nix-build --max-jobs 1 --argstr hypothesisProfile ci --arg collectCoverage true --attr doc
 
       - run:
           name: "Cache codecov"