diff --git a/megatron/core/extensions/transformer_engine.py b/megatron/core/extensions/transformer_engine.py
index bf5b228b6c9..f852da4ffc3 100644
--- a/megatron/core/extensions/transformer_engine.py
+++ b/megatron/core/extensions/transformer_engine.py
@@ -2254,21 +2254,33 @@ def fused_apply_rotary_pos_emb(
         freqs: torch.Tensor,
         transpose_output_memory: bool = False,
         interleaved: bool = False,
+        start_positions: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None,
     ) -> torch.Tensor:
         """Apply rotary positional embedding to input tensor T in `sbhd` format."""
         if transpose_output_memory:
             warnings.warn(
                 "transpose_output_memory is not supported by TE's fused RoPE and will be ignored."
             )
+
+        conditional_kwargs = {}
+        if is_te_min_version("2.10.0.dev0"):
+            conditional_kwargs["start_positions"] = start_positions
+        else:
+            if start_positions is not None:
+                raise ValueError(
+                    "Only TE >= 2.10.0.dev0 supports offset RoPE application with "
+                    "`start_positions` argument."
+                )
+
         if is_te_min_version("2.3.0"):
-            return apply_rotary_pos_emb(
-                t, freqs, tensor_format="sbhd", interleaved=interleaved, fused=True
-            )
+            conditional_kwargs["interleaved"] = interleaved
         else:
             if interleaved:
                 raise ValueError("Only TE >= 2.3.0 supports interleaved fused RoPE.")
 
-            return apply_rotary_pos_emb(t, freqs, tensor_format="sbhd", fused=True)
+        return apply_rotary_pos_emb(
+            t, freqs, tensor_format="sbhd", fused=True, **conditional_kwargs
+        )
 
     def fused_apply_rotary_pos_emb_thd(
         t: torch.Tensor,
@@ -2276,25 +2288,31 @@ def fused_apply_rotary_pos_emb_thd(
         freqs: torch.Tensor,
         cp_size: int = 1,
         cp_rank: int = 0,
+        start_positions: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None,
     ) -> torch.Tensor:
         """
         Apply rotary positional embedding to input tensor T in `thd` format with CP support.
         """
+        conditional_kwargs = {}
+        if is_te_min_version("2.10.0.dev0"):
+            conditional_kwargs["start_positions"] = start_positions
+        else:
+            if start_positions is not None:
+                raise ValueError(
+                    "Only TE >= 2.10.0.dev0 supports offset RoPE application with "
+                    "`start_positions` argument."
+                )
+
         if is_te_min_version("1.12.0", check_equality=True):
-            return apply_rotary_pos_emb(
-                t,
-                freqs,
-                tensor_format="thd",
-                fused=True,
-                cu_seqlens=cu_seqlens,
-                cp_size=cp_size,
-                cp_rank=cp_rank,
-            )
+            conditional_kwargs["cp_size"] = cp_size
+            conditional_kwargs["cp_rank"] = cp_rank
         else:
-            assert cp_size == 1, "Only TE >= 1.12 supports RoPE fusion for THD format with CP."
-            return apply_rotary_pos_emb(
-                t, freqs, tensor_format="thd", fused=True, cu_seqlens=cu_seqlens
-            )
+            if cp_size > 1:
+                raise ValueError("Only TE >= 1.12.0 supports CP RoPE application for THD format.")
+
+        return apply_rotary_pos_emb(
+            t, freqs, tensor_format="thd", fused=True, cu_seqlens=cu_seqlens, **conditional_kwargs
+        )
 
 except ImportError:
     pass
diff --git a/tests/unit_tests/transformer/test_rope.py b/tests/unit_tests/transformer/test_rope.py
index e33c6101b91..f188786f6f2 100644
--- a/tests/unit_tests/transformer/test_rope.py
+++ b/tests/unit_tests/transformer/test_rope.py
@@ -2,7 +2,13 @@
 
 import pytest
 import torch
+from packaging.version import Version as PkgVersion
+from pytest_mock import mocker
 
+from megatron.core.extensions.transformer_engine import (
+    fused_apply_rotary_pos_emb,
+    fused_apply_rotary_pos_emb_thd,
+)
 from megatron.core.models.common.embeddings import apply_rotary_pos_emb
 from megatron.core.models.common.embeddings.rotary_pos_embedding import (
     MultimodalRotaryEmbedding,
@@ -94,6 +100,31 @@ def test_cpu_forward(self):
         assert output.dtype == torch.float32
         assert output.device.type == 'cuda'
 
+    @pytest.mark.internal
+    def test_transformer_engine_version_less_than_2_10(self, mocker):
+        with pytest.raises(Exception) as exc_info:
+            mocker.patch("megatron.core.utils.get_te_version", return_value=PkgVersion("2.9"))
+            t = torch.randn(64, 1, 1, 8)
+            freqs = torch.randn(64, 1, 1, 8)
+            fused_apply_rotary_pos_emb(t, freqs, start_positions=torch.tensor([0, 1, 2, 3]))
+
+        assert str(exc_info.value) == (
+            "Only TE >= 2.10.0.dev0 supports offset RoPE application with "
+            "`start_positions` argument."
+        )
+
+        with pytest.raises(Exception) as exc_info_thd:
+            mocker.patch("megatron.core.utils.get_te_version", return_value=PkgVersion("2.9"))
+            t = torch.randn(64, 1, 8)
+            freqs = torch.randn(64, 1, 1, 8)
+            cu_seqlens = torch.tensor([0, 64])
+            fused_apply_rotary_pos_emb_thd(t, cu_seqlens, freqs, start_positions=torch.tensor([0]))
+
+        assert str(exc_info_thd.value) == (
+            "Only TE >= 2.10.0.dev0 supports offset RoPE application with "
+            "`start_positions` argument."
+        )
+
 
 class TestQKVRotaryEmbedding:
     def setup_method(self):