diff --git a/cmake/presets/kokkos-sycl.cmake b/cmake/presets/kokkos-sycl.cmake
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..01abe7762f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cmake/presets/kokkos-sycl.cmake
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+# preset that enables KOKKOS and selects SYCL compilation with OpenMP
+# enabled as well. Also sets some performance related compiler flags.
+set(PKG_KOKKOS ON CACHE BOOL "" FORCE)
+set(Kokkos_ENABLE_SERIAL ON CACHE BOOL "" FORCE)
+set(Kokkos_ENABLE_OPENMP ON CACHE BOOL "" FORCE)
+set(Kokkos_ENABLE_CUDA   OFF CACHE BOOL "" FORCE)
+set(Kokkos_ENABLE_SYCL   ON CACHE BOOL "" FORCE)
+set(Kokkos_ARCH_MAXWELL50 on CACHE BOOL "" FORCE)
+set(BUILD_OMP ON CACHE BOOL "" FORCE)
+
+set(CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER clang++ CACHE STRING "" FORCE)
+set(MPI_CXX_COMPILER "mpicxx" CACHE STRING "" FORCE)
+set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 17 CACHE STRING "" FORCE)
+set(CMAKE_SHARED_LINKER_FLAGS "-Xsycl-target-frontend -O3" CACHE STRING "" FORCE)
+set(CMAKE_TUNE_FLAGS "-fgpu-inline-threshold=100000 -Xsycl-target-frontend -O3  -Xsycl-target-frontend -ffp-contract=on -Wno-unknown-cuda-version" CACHE STRING "" FORCE)
diff --git a/doc/src/Build_extras.rst b/doc/src/Build_extras.rst
index 9648df402f..f3af36c0bb 100644
--- a/doc/src/Build_extras.rst
+++ b/doc/src/Build_extras.rst
@@ -638,13 +638,14 @@ This list was last updated for version 3.5.0 of the Kokkos library.
 
          -D CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=${HOME}/lammps/lib/kokkos/bin/nvcc_wrapper
 
-      To simplify compilation, three preset files are included in the
+      To simplify compilation, four preset files are included in the
       ``cmake/presets`` folder, ``kokkos-serial.cmake``,
-      ``kokkos-openmp.cmake``, and ``kokkos-cuda.cmake``. They will
-      enable the KOKKOS package and enable some hardware choice.  So to
-      compile with OpenMP host parallelization, CUDA device
-      parallelization (for GPUs with CC 5.0 and up) with some common
-      packages enabled, you can do the following:
+      ``kokkos-openmp.cmake``, ``kokkos-cuda.cmake``, and
+      ``kokkos-sycl.cmake``.  They will enable the KOKKOS package and
+      enable some hardware choice.  So to compile with OpenMP host
+      parallelization, CUDA device parallelization (for GPUs with CC 5.0
+      and up) with some common packages enabled, you can do the
+      following:
 
       .. code-block:: bash