diff --git a/mlir/include/mlir-c/ExecutionEngine.h b/mlir/include/mlir-c/ExecutionEngine.h
--- a/mlir/include/mlir-c/ExecutionEngine.h
+++ b/mlir/include/mlir-c/ExecutionEngine.h
@@ -61,6 +61,12 @@
 MLIR_CAPI_EXPORTED void *mlirExecutionEngineLookup(MlirExecutionEngine jit,
                                                    MlirStringRef name);
 
+/// Register a symbol with the jit: this symbol will be accessible to the jitted
+/// code.
+MLIR_CAPI_EXPORTED void
+mlirExecutionEngineRegisterSymbol(MlirExecutionEngine jit, MlirStringRef name,
+                                  void *sym);
+
 #ifdef __cplusplus
 }
 #endif
diff --git a/mlir/lib/Bindings/Python/ExecutionEngine.cpp b/mlir/lib/Bindings/Python/ExecutionEngine.cpp
--- a/mlir/lib/Bindings/Python/ExecutionEngine.cpp
+++ b/mlir/lib/Bindings/Python/ExecutionEngine.cpp
@@ -83,5 +83,14 @@
                 mlirStringRefCreate(func.c_str(), func.size()));
             return (int64_t)res;
           },
+          "Lookup function `func` in the ExecutionEngine.")
+      .def(
+          "raw_register_runtime",
+          [](PyExecutionEngine &executionEngine, const std::string &name,
+             int64_t sym) {
+            mlirExecutionEngineRegisterSymbol(
+                executionEngine.get(),
+                mlirStringRefCreate(name.c_str(), name.size()), (void *)sym);
+          },
           "Lookup function `func` in the ExecutionEngine.");
 }
diff --git a/mlir/lib/Bindings/Python/mlir/execution_engine.py b/mlir/lib/Bindings/Python/mlir/execution_engine.py
--- a/mlir/lib/Bindings/Python/mlir/execution_engine.py
+++ b/mlir/lib/Bindings/Python/mlir/execution_engine.py
@@ -29,3 +29,11 @@
     for argNum in range(len(ctypes_args)):
       packed_args[argNum] = ctypes.cast(ctypes_args[argNum], ctypes.c_void_p)
     func(packed_args)
+
+  def register_runtime(self, name, ctypes_callback):
+    """Register a runtime function available to the jitted code
+    under the provided `name`. The `ctypes_callback` must be a
+    `CFuncType` that outlives the execution engine.
+    """
+    callback = ctypes.cast(ctypes_callback, ctypes.c_void_p).value
+    self.raw_register_runtime("_mlir_ciface_" + name, callback)
diff --git a/mlir/lib/CAPI/ExecutionEngine/ExecutionEngine.cpp b/mlir/lib/CAPI/ExecutionEngine/ExecutionEngine.cpp
--- a/mlir/lib/CAPI/ExecutionEngine/ExecutionEngine.cpp
+++ b/mlir/lib/CAPI/ExecutionEngine/ExecutionEngine.cpp
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 #include "mlir/CAPI/IR.h"
 #include "mlir/CAPI/Support.h"
 #include "mlir/Target/LLVMIR/Dialect/LLVMIR/LLVMToLLVMIRTranslation.h"
+#include "llvm/ExecutionEngine/Orc/Mangling.h"
 #include "llvm/Support/TargetSelect.h"
 
 using namespace mlir;
@@ -54,3 +55,14 @@
     return nullptr;
   return reinterpret_cast<void *>(*expectedFPtr);
 }
+
+extern "C" void mlirExecutionEngineRegisterSymbol(MlirExecutionEngine jit,
+                                                  MlirStringRef name,
+                                                  void *sym) {
+  unwrap(jit)->registerSymbols([&](llvm::orc::MangleAndInterner interner) {
+    llvm::orc::SymbolMap symbolMap;
+    symbolMap[interner(unwrap(name))] =
+        llvm::JITEvaluatedSymbol::fromPointer(sym);
+    return symbolMap;
+  });
+}
diff --git a/mlir/test/Bindings/Python/execution_engine.py b/mlir/test/Bindings/Python/execution_engine.py
--- a/mlir/test/Bindings/Python/execution_engine.py
+++ b/mlir/test/Bindings/Python/execution_engine.py
@@ -97,3 +97,37 @@
     log("{0} + {1} = {2}".format(arg0[0], arg1[0], res[0]))
 
 run(testInvokeFloatAdd)
+
+
+# Test callback
+# CHECK-LABEL: TEST: testBasicCallback
+def testBasicCallback():
+  # Define a callback function that takes a float and an integer and returns a float.
+  @ctypes.CFUNCTYPE(ctypes.c_float, ctypes.c_float, ctypes.c_int)
+  def callback(a, b):
+    return a/2 + b/2
+
+  with Context():
+    # The module just forwards to a runtime function known as "some_callback_into_python".
+    module = Module.parse(r"""
+func @add(%arg0: f32, %arg1: i32) -> f32 attributes { llvm.emit_c_interface } {
+  %resf = call @some_callback_into_python(%arg0, %arg1) : (f32, i32) -> (f32)
+  return %resf : f32
+}
+func private @some_callback_into_python(f32, i32) -> f32 attributes { llvm.emit_c_interface }
+    """)
+    execution_engine = ExecutionEngine(lowerToLLVM(module))
+    execution_engine.register_runtime("some_callback_into_python", callback)
+
+    # Prepare arguments: two input floats and one result.
+    # Arguments must be passed as pointers.
+    c_float_p = ctypes.c_float * 1
+    c_int_p = ctypes.c_int * 1
+    arg0 = c_float_p(42.)
+    arg1 = c_int_p(2)
+    res = c_float_p(-1.)
+    execution_engine.invoke("add", arg0, arg1, res)
+    # CHECK: 42.0 + 2 = 44.0
+    log("{0} + {1} = {2}".format(arg0[0], arg1[0], res[0]*2))
+
+run(testBasicCallback)