diff --git a/src/hydra-eval-jobs/hydra-eval-jobs.cc b/src/hydra-eval-jobs/hydra-eval-jobs.cc
index 7485b297..918bd451 100644
--- a/src/hydra-eval-jobs/hydra-eval-jobs.cc
+++ b/src/hydra-eval-jobs/hydra-eval-jobs.cc
@@ -25,6 +25,28 @@
 
 #include <nlohmann/json.hpp>
 
+void check_pid_status_nonblocking(pid_t check_pid) {
+    // Only check 'initialized' and known PID's
+    if (check_pid <= 0) { return; }
+
+    int wstatus = 0;
+    pid_t pid = waitpid(check_pid, &wstatus, WNOHANG);
+    // -1 = failure, WNOHANG: 0 = no change
+    if (pid <= 0) { return; }
+
+    std::cerr << "child process (" << pid << ") ";
+
+    if (WIFEXITED(wstatus)) {
+        std::cerr << "exited with status=" << WEXITSTATUS(wstatus) << std::endl;
+    } else if (WIFSIGNALED(wstatus)) {
+        std::cerr << "killed by signal=" << WTERMSIG(wstatus) << std::endl;
+    } else if (WIFSTOPPED(wstatus)) {
+        std::cerr << "stopped by signal=" << WSTOPSIG(wstatus) << std::endl;
+    } else if (WIFCONTINUED(wstatus)) {
+        std::cerr << "continued" << std::endl;
+    }
+}
+
 using namespace nix;
 
 static Path gcRootsDir;
@@ -311,8 +333,8 @@ int main(int argc, char * * argv)
         /* Start a handler thread per worker process. */
         auto handler = [&]()
         {
+            pid_t pid = -1;
             try {
-                pid_t pid = -1;
                 AutoCloseFD from, to;
 
                 while (true) {
@@ -414,6 +436,7 @@ int main(int argc, char * * argv)
                     }
                 }
             } catch (...) {
+                check_pid_status_nonblocking(pid);
                 auto state(state_.lock());
                 state->exc = std::current_exception();
                 wakeup.notify_all();
diff --git a/t/evaluator/evaluate-oom-job.t b/t/evaluator/evaluate-oom-job.t
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6c17d4e4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/evaluator/evaluate-oom-job.t
@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+use Setup;
+use Test2::V0;
+use Hydra::Helper::Exec;
+
+# Ensure that `systemd-run` is
+# - Available in the PATH/envionment
+# - Accessable to the user executing it
+# - Capable of using the command switches we use in our test
+my $sd_res;
+eval {
+  ($sd_res) = captureStdoutStderr(3, (
+    "systemd-run",
+      "--user",
+      "--collect",
+      "--scope",
+      "--property",
+        "MemoryMax=25M",
+    "--",
+    "true"
+  ));
+} or do {
+  # The command failed to execute, likely because `systemd-run` is not present
+  # in `PATH`
+  skip_all("`systemd-run` failed when invoked in this environment");
+};
+if ($sd_res != 0) {
+  # `systemd-run` executed but `sytemd-run` failed to call `true` and return
+  # successfully
+  skip_all("`systemd-run` returned non-zero when executing `true` (expected 0)");
+}
+
+my $ctx = test_context();
+
+# Contain the memory usage to 25 MegaBytes using `systemd-run`
+# Run `hydra-eval-jobs` on test job that will purposefully consume all memory
+# available
+my ($res, $stdout, $stderr) = captureStdoutStderr(60, (
+  "systemd-run",
+    "--user",
+    "--collect",
+    "--scope",
+    "--property",
+      "MemoryMax=25M",
+  "--",
+  "hydra-eval-jobs",
+    "-I", "/dev/zero",
+    "-I", $ctx->jobsdir,
+    ($ctx->jobsdir . "/oom.nix")
+));
+
+isnt($res, 0, "`hydra-eval-jobs` exits non-zero");
+ok(utf8::decode($stderr), "Stderr output is UTF8-clean");
+like(
+  $stderr,
+  # Assert error log contains messages added in PR
+  # https://github.com/NixOS/hydra/pull/1203
+  qr/^child process \(\d+?\) killed by signal=9$/m,
+  "The stderr record includes a relevant error message"
+);
+
+done_testing;
diff --git a/t/jobs/oom.nix b/t/jobs/oom.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..abbd0c0d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/jobs/oom.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+{
+  oom = builtins.readFile "/dev/zero";
+}