diff --git a/.github/workflows/cicd-main.yml b/.github/workflows/cicd-main.yml
index ccab04edfc087..4d0ec0eb56d91 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/cicd-main.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/cicd-main.yml
@@ -149,6 +149,7 @@ jobs:
         - name: Checkout repository
           uses: actions/checkout@v4
         - run: |
+            mkdir -p /home/TestData/nlp/megatron_gpt/starcoder-ci-hf/${{ github.run_id }};
             python scripts/checkpoint_converters/convert_starcoder_hf_to_nemo.py \
             --input_name_or_path /home/TestData/nlp/megatron_gpt/starcoder-ci-hf \
             --output_path /home/TestData/nlp/megatron_gpt/starcoder-ci-hf/${{ github.run_id }}