diff --git a/docs/requirements.txt b/docs/requirements.txt
index ac9c7f38a7..8b4c00a62a 100644
--- a/docs/requirements.txt
+++ b/docs/requirements.txt
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ sphinxcontrib-qthelp
 sphinxcontrib-serializinghtml
 sphinx-autodoc-typehints==1.11.1
 pandas
-einops
 transformers
 mlflow
 tensorboardX
diff --git a/docs/source/installation.md b/docs/source/installation.md
index c431b3389a..50e32698d3 100644
--- a/docs/source/installation.md
+++ b/docs/source/installation.md
@@ -174,10 +174,10 @@ Since MONAI v0.2.0, the extras syntax such as `pip install 'monai[nibabel]'` is
 
 - The options are
 ```
-[nibabel, skimage, pillow, tensorboard, gdown, ignite, torchvision, itk, tqdm, lmdb, psutil, cucim, openslide, pandas, einops, transformers, mlflow, matplotlib, tensorboardX, tifffile, imagecodecs]
+[nibabel, skimage, pillow, tensorboard, gdown, ignite, torchvision, itk, tqdm, lmdb, psutil, cucim, openslide, pandas, transformers, mlflow, matplotlib, tensorboardX, tifffile, imagecodecs]
 ```
 which correspond to `nibabel`, `scikit-image`, `pillow`, `tensorboard`,
-`gdown`, `pytorch-ignite`, `torchvision`, `itk`, `tqdm`, `lmdb`, `psutil`, `cucim`, `openslide-python`, `pandas`, `einops`, `transformers`, `mlflow`, `matplotlib`, `tensorboardX`,
+`gdown`, `pytorch-ignite`, `torchvision`, `itk`, `tqdm`, `lmdb`, `psutil`, `cucim`, `openslide-python`, `pandas`, `transformers`, `mlflow`, `matplotlib`, `tensorboardX`,
 `tifffile`, `imagecodecs`, respectively.
 
 - `pip install 'monai[all]'` installs all the optional dependencies.
diff --git a/monai/config/deviceconfig.py b/monai/config/deviceconfig.py
index e542da14ab..b8fe4b63b9 100644
--- a/monai/config/deviceconfig.py
+++ b/monai/config/deviceconfig.py
@@ -72,7 +72,6 @@ def get_optional_config_values():
     output["lmdb"] = get_package_version("lmdb")
     output["psutil"] = psutil_version
     output["pandas"] = get_package_version("pandas")
-    output["einops"] = get_package_version("einops")
     output["transformers"] = get_package_version("transformers")
     output["mlflow"] = get_package_version("mlflow")
 
diff --git a/monai/networks/blocks/patchembedding.py b/monai/networks/blocks/patchembedding.py
index 492e7bf236..e06a106fe4 100644
--- a/monai/networks/blocks/patchembedding.py
+++ b/monai/networks/blocks/patchembedding.py
@@ -18,10 +18,9 @@
 import torch.nn as nn
 
 from monai.networks.layers import Conv
-from monai.utils import ensure_tuple_rep, optional_import
+from monai.utils import ensure_tuple_rep
 from monai.utils.module import look_up_option
 
-Rearrange, _ = optional_import("einops.layers.torch", name="Rearrange")
 SUPPORTED_EMBEDDING_TYPES = {"conv", "perceptron"}
 
 
@@ -70,7 +69,11 @@ def __init__(
         if hidden_size % num_heads != 0:
             raise ValueError("hidden size should be divisible by num_heads.")
 
+        if spatial_dims not in [2, 3]:
+            raise ValueError("spatial_dims should be 2 or 3.")
+
         self.pos_embed = look_up_option(pos_embed, SUPPORTED_EMBEDDING_TYPES)
+        self.permute_dims = get_permute_dims(spatial_dims)
 
         img_size = ensure_tuple_rep(img_size, spatial_dims)
         patch_size = ensure_tuple_rep(patch_size, spatial_dims)
@@ -79,23 +82,19 @@ def __init__(
                 raise ValueError("patch_size should be smaller than img_size.")
             if self.pos_embed == "perceptron" and m % p != 0:
                 raise ValueError("patch_size should be divisible by img_size for perceptron.")
-        self.n_patches = np.prod([im_d // p_d for im_d, p_d in zip(img_size, patch_size)])
-        self.patch_dim = in_channels * np.prod(patch_size)
+
+        img_by_patch = [im_d // p_d for im_d, p_d in zip(img_size, patch_size)]
+        self.n_patches = int(np.prod(img_by_patch))
+        self.patch_dim = int(in_channels * np.prod(patch_size))
+        self.reshape_spatial_dims = [x for z in zip(img_by_patch, patch_size) for x in z]
 
         self.patch_embeddings: nn.Module
         if self.pos_embed == "conv":
             self.patch_embeddings = Conv[Conv.CONV, spatial_dims](
                 in_channels=in_channels, out_channels=hidden_size, kernel_size=patch_size, stride=patch_size
             )
-        elif self.pos_embed == "perceptron":
-            # for 3d: "b c (h p1) (w p2) (d p3)-> b (h w d) (p1 p2 p3 c)"
-            chars = (("h", "p1"), ("w", "p2"), ("d", "p3"))[:spatial_dims]
-            from_chars = "b c " + " ".join(f"({k} {v})" for k, v in chars)
-            to_chars = f"b ({' '.join([c[0] for c in chars])}) ({' '.join([c[1] for c in chars])} c)"
-            axes_len = {f"p{i+1}": p for i, p in enumerate(patch_size)}
-            self.patch_embeddings = nn.Sequential(
-                Rearrange(f"{from_chars} -> {to_chars}", **axes_len), nn.Linear(self.patch_dim, hidden_size)
-            )
+        else:
+            self.patch_embeddings = nn.Linear(self.patch_dim, hidden_size)
         self.position_embeddings = nn.Parameter(torch.zeros(1, self.n_patches, hidden_size))
         self.cls_token = nn.Parameter(torch.zeros(1, 1, hidden_size))
         self.dropout = nn.Dropout(dropout_rate)
@@ -127,10 +126,26 @@ def norm_cdf(x):
             tensor.clamp_(min=a, max=b)
             return tensor
 
+    def _rearrange_input(self, x):
+        b, c = x.shape[:2]
+        reshape_size = [b, c] + self.reshape_spatial_dims
+        x = x.reshape(reshape_size)
+        x = x.permute(self.permute_dims)
+        return x.reshape([b, self.n_patches, self.patch_dim])
+
     def forward(self, x):
+        if self.pos_embed == "perceptron":
+            x = self._rearrange_input(x)
         x = self.patch_embeddings(x)
         if self.pos_embed == "conv":
             x = x.flatten(2).transpose(-1, -2)
         embeddings = x + self.position_embeddings
         embeddings = self.dropout(embeddings)
         return embeddings
+
+
+def get_permute_dims(spatial_dims: int):
+    if spatial_dims == 2:
+        return (0, 2, 4, 3, 5, 1)
+    else:  # spatial_dims == 3
+        return (0, 2, 4, 6, 3, 5, 7, 1)
diff --git a/monai/networks/blocks/selfattention.py b/monai/networks/blocks/selfattention.py
index 932475b06c..4c81243437 100644
--- a/monai/networks/blocks/selfattention.py
+++ b/monai/networks/blocks/selfattention.py
@@ -12,10 +12,6 @@
 import torch
 import torch.nn as nn
 
-from monai.utils import optional_import
-
-einops, _ = optional_import("einops")
-
 
 class SABlock(nn.Module):
     """
@@ -49,11 +45,15 @@ def __init__(self, hidden_size: int, num_heads: int, dropout_rate: float = 0.0)
         self.scale = self.head_dim ** -0.5
 
     def forward(self, x):
-        q, k, v = einops.rearrange(self.qkv(x), "b h (qkv l d) -> qkv b l h d", qkv=3, l=self.num_heads)
+        b, h, in_feats = x.shape
+        l = self.num_heads
+        d = in_feats // l
+        x = self.qkv(x).reshape([b, h, 3, l, d]).permute(2, 0, 3, 1, 4)
+        q, k, v = x[0], x[1], x[2]
         att_mat = (torch.einsum("blxd,blyd->blxy", q, k) * self.scale).softmax(dim=-1)
         att_mat = self.drop_weights(att_mat)
         x = torch.einsum("bhxy,bhyd->bhxd", att_mat, v)
-        x = einops.rearrange(x, "b h l d -> b l (h d)")
+        x = x.permute([0, 2, 1, 3]).reshape([b, h, l * d])
         x = self.out_proj(x)
         x = self.drop_output(x)
         return x
diff --git a/monai/networks/nets/vit.py b/monai/networks/nets/vit.py
index 2707e5ad1d..8e499dd56a 100644
--- a/monai/networks/nets/vit.py
+++ b/monai/networks/nets/vit.py
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ def __init__(
 
     def forward(self, x):
         x = self.patch_embedding(x)
-        if self.classification:
+        if hasattr(self, "cls_token"):
             cls_token = self.cls_token.expand(x.shape[0], -1, -1)
             x = torch.cat((cls_token, x), dim=1)
         hidden_states_out = []
@@ -107,6 +107,6 @@ def forward(self, x):
             x = blk(x)
             hidden_states_out.append(x)
         x = self.norm(x)
-        if self.classification:
+        if hasattr(self, "classification_head"):
             x = self.classification_head(x[:, 0])
         return x, hidden_states_out
diff --git a/requirements-dev.txt b/requirements-dev.txt
index f47eb14bbd..b52bd7c5e8 100644
--- a/requirements-dev.txt
+++ b/requirements-dev.txt
@@ -37,7 +37,6 @@ imagecodecs; platform_system == "Linux"
 tifffile; platform_system == "Linux"
 pandas
 requests
-einops
 transformers
 mlflow
 matplotlib!=3.5.0
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index c58e683b12..d037834192 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -45,7 +45,6 @@ all =
     tifffile
     imagecodecs
     pandas
-    einops
     transformers
     mlflow
     matplotlib
@@ -82,8 +81,6 @@ imagecodecs =
     imagecodecs
 pandas =
     pandas
-einops =
-    einops
 transformers =
     transformers
 mlflow =
diff --git a/tests/test_patchembedding.py b/tests/test_patchembedding.py
index 6c9ac78a99..b3ef0723fc 100644
--- a/tests/test_patchembedding.py
+++ b/tests/test_patchembedding.py
@@ -10,16 +10,12 @@
 # limitations under the License.
 
 import unittest
-from unittest import skipUnless
 
 import torch
 from parameterized import parameterized
 
 from monai.networks import eval_mode
 from monai.networks.blocks.patchembedding import PatchEmbeddingBlock
-from monai.utils import optional_import
-
-einops, has_einops = optional_import("einops")
 
 TEST_CASE_PATCHEMBEDDINGBLOCK = []
 for dropout_rate in (0.5,):
@@ -51,7 +47,6 @@
 
 class TestPatchEmbeddingBlock(unittest.TestCase):
     @parameterized.expand(TEST_CASE_PATCHEMBEDDINGBLOCK)
-    @skipUnless(has_einops, "Requires einops")
     def test_shape(self, input_param, input_shape, expected_shape):
         net = PatchEmbeddingBlock(**input_param)
         with eval_mode(net):
diff --git a/tests/test_selfattention.py b/tests/test_selfattention.py
index 559e86487b..e5bd80cb7d 100644
--- a/tests/test_selfattention.py
+++ b/tests/test_selfattention.py
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@
 # limitations under the License.
 
 import unittest
-from unittest import skipUnless
 
 import numpy as np
 import torch
@@ -18,9 +17,6 @@
 
 from monai.networks import eval_mode
 from monai.networks.blocks.selfattention import SABlock
-from monai.utils import optional_import
-
-einops, has_einops = optional_import("einops")
 
 TEST_CASE_SABLOCK = []
 for dropout_rate in np.linspace(0, 1, 4):
@@ -37,7 +33,6 @@
 
 class TestResBlock(unittest.TestCase):
     @parameterized.expand(TEST_CASE_SABLOCK)
-    @skipUnless(has_einops, "Requires einops")
     def test_shape(self, input_param, input_shape, expected_shape):
         net = SABlock(**input_param)
         with eval_mode(net):
diff --git a/tests/test_vit.py b/tests/test_vit.py
index cdf0888222..07af1b61f8 100644
--- a/tests/test_vit.py
+++ b/tests/test_vit.py
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 
 from monai.networks import eval_mode
 from monai.networks.nets.vit import ViT
+from tests.utils import test_script_save
 
 TEST_CASE_Vit = []
 for dropout_rate in [0.6]:
@@ -133,6 +134,18 @@ def test_ill_arg(self):
                 dropout_rate=0.3,
             )
 
+    @parameterized.expand(TEST_CASE_Vit)
+    def test_script(self, input_param, input_shape, _):
+        net = ViT(**(input_param))
+        net.eval()
+        with torch.no_grad():
+            torch.jit.script(net)
+
+        input_param_ = dict(input_param)
+        net = ViT(**(input_param_))
+        test_data = torch.randn(input_shape)
+        test_script_save(net, test_data)
+
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     unittest.main()