diff --git a/src/spatialdata/_core/query/_utils.py b/src/spatialdata/_core/query/_utils.py
index 4f7688a4..0229d8bd 100644
--- a/src/spatialdata/_core/query/_utils.py
+++ b/src/spatialdata/_core/query/_utils.py
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ def get_bounding_box_corners(
     return output.squeeze().drop_vars("box")
 
 
-@nb.njit(parallel=False, nopython=True)
+@nb.jit(parallel=False, nopython=True)
 def _create_slices_and_translation(
     min_values: nb.types.Array,
     max_values: nb.types.Array,