diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
index aa076e6be..13ca70440 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -69,6 +69,13 @@ repos:
               # of dependencies, so we'll have to update this manually.
               additional_dependencies:
                 - cmakelang==0.6.13
+            - id: doxygen-check
+              name: doxygen-check
+              entry: ./scripts/doxygen.sh
+              types_or: [file]
+              language: system
+              pass_filenames: false
+              verbose: true
     - repo: https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff-pre-commit
       rev: v0.0.278
       hooks:
diff --git a/dependencies.yaml b/dependencies.yaml
index e16d7a292..f0541ce20 100644
--- a/dependencies.yaml
+++ b/dependencies.yaml
@@ -111,6 +111,7 @@ dependencies:
           # pre-commit requires identify minimum version 1.0, but clang-format requires textproto support and that was
           # added in 2.5.20, so we need to call out the minimum version needed for our plugins
           - identify>=2.5.20
+          - &doxygen doxygen=1.8.20
   cudatoolkit:
     specific:
       - output_types: conda
@@ -153,7 +154,7 @@ dependencies:
     common:
       - output_types: [conda]
         packages:
-          - doxygen=1.8.20
+          - *doxygen
           - graphviz
           - ipython
           - make
diff --git a/scripts/doxygen.sh b/scripts/doxygen.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..5c001fc72
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/doxygen.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+# Copyright (c) 2023, NVIDIA CORPORATION.
+##############################
+# RMM doxygen warnings check #
+##############################
+
+# skip if doxygen is not installed
+if ! [ -x "$(command -v doxygen)" ]; then
+  echo -e "warning: doxygen is not installed"
+  exit 0
+fi
+
+# Utility to return version as number for comparison
+function version { echo "$@" | awk -F. '{ printf("%d%03d%03d%03d\n", $1,$2,$3,$4); }'; }
+
+# doxygen supported version 1.8.20 to 1.9.1
+DOXYGEN_VERSION=`doxygen --version`
+if [ $(version "$DOXYGEN_VERSION") -lt $(version "1.8.20") ] ||  [ $(version $DOXYGEN_VERSION) -gt $(version "1.9.1") ]; then
+  echo -e "warning: Unsupported doxygen version $DOXYGEN_VERSION"
+  echo -e "Expecting doxygen version from 1.8.20 to 1.9.1"
+  exit 0
+fi
+
+# Run doxygen, ignore missing tag files error
+TAG_ERROR1="error: Tag file '.*.tag' does not exist or is not a file. Skipping it..."
+TAG_ERROR2="error: cannot open tag file .*.tag for writing"
+DOXYGEN_STDERR=`cd doxygen && { cat Doxyfile ; echo QUIET = YES; echo GENERATE_HTML = NO; }  | doxygen - 2>&1 | sed "/\($TAG_ERROR1\|$TAG_ERROR2\)/d"`
+RETVAL=$?
+
+if [ "$RETVAL" != "0" ] || [ ! -z "$DOXYGEN_STDERR" ]; then
+  echo -e "$DOXYGEN_STDERR"
+  RETVAL=1 #because return value is not generated by doxygen 1.8.20
+fi
+
+exit $RETVAL