Announcing the 2025 EF Internship Program!

The 2025 Ethereum Basis internship purposes are open! Each research and development groups have open positions. Functions shut on December 9, 2024.

The Ethereum Basis is operating its first formal summer season internship program in 2025 aimed toward nurturing the subsequent technology of Ethereum builders and researchers.

Interns will work alongside EF groups and, with the assistance of devoted mentors, contribute on to core tasks in key areas similar to protocol safety, account abstraction, scaling analysis, shopper growth, and extra. For instance, a previous intern labored on MEV smoothing research earlier than ultimately becoming a member of the EF full time.

Who is that this for?

Candidates needs to be familiar with the Ethereum protocol and out there for full-time work. If at the moment in college, they need to be superior of their research. Candidates ought to have demonstrable curiosity within the speciality of the group with whom they apply to work.

Program

Chosen interns shall be assigned a short-term venture and a mentor and may anticipate to work considerably autonomously. Interns can select to both work remotely, or in one of many EF places of work, in Boulder (USA) or Berlin (Germany). As well as, interns shall be invited for an in-person cohort meetup in the summertime.

EPF vs internship

The internship is geared towards these out there for an outlined ‘summer season’ dedication with a common skillset and a want to learn to apply that skillset to the Ethereum area. In distinction, the present Ethereum Protocol Fellowship is a six month program that assumes superior data and a want for full-time work in Ethereum.

Utility Course of

Functions are reside and can shut on December 9, 2024. Preliminary screenings shall be adopted by formal interviews, with the notification course of anticipated to be full by 10 Jan.

The length of this system shall be roughly 12 weeks with begin and finish dates versatile relying on college schedules.

You may apply for the roles right here:

Mentoring groups

1. Protocol Safety – The Protocol Safety Analysis group safeguards Ethereum’s integrity. By way of coordination, meticulous code opinions, analysis, growing superior tooling, and real-world simulations, we deal with securing the community and its essential parts. Our hands-on method consists of managing the bug bounty program, repeatedly monitoring the community, and collaborating with shopper groups. We’re dedicated to figuring out and mitigating dangers to Ethereum mainnet. Take a look at the Protocol Security README

   Most well-liked expertise: Cybersecurity courses or expertise

2. Strong Incentives Group – The Strong Incentives Group is a analysis group devoted to the examine of mechanism design and cryptoeconomics for Ethereum. Our work maps all of the ways in which incentives instantly or not directly have an effect on customers and protocol stakeholders of Ethereum. The place attainable, we suggest mechanisms to recuperate incentive compatibility and system optimality. Our strategies are diverse, from formal evaluation to knowledge science and simulations, and we have interaction tutorial and common audiences with various codecs of grants, publications and talks. Take a look at our work on our homepage and comply with our updates with our newsletter!

   Most well-liked expertise: Familiarity with RIG initiatives, earlier work or writings in mechanism design or economics analysis

3. Portal Community – The Portal Community is a brand new networking design for Ethereum that goals to resolve the information availability drawback for “mild” nodes with out having to belief or put further pressure on full nodes, by sharing the mandatory knowledge in small chunks throughout the community. Take a look at the ethereum.org explainer, talks from Devcon SEA 2024, Devcon Bogotá 2022, the network specs.

   Most well-liked expertise: Pc science courses, some Rust data

4. Testing – The EEST venture is liable for the Ethereum protocol reference assessments, utilized by all purchasers to detect consensus points throughout new hard-fork implementations and regressions.
   The group additionally takes care of sustaining and bettering the tooling, frameworks, documentation and steerage required to facilitate the shopper builders with the consumption of the assessments, which incorporates the EEST, the legacy ethereum/assessments repository, and in addition integration assessments within the type of varied hive simulators.
   Take a look at the Devcon SEA 2024 talk on EEST.

   Most well-liked expertise: Testing frameworks (Hive) and methodologies (fuzzing, simulations)

5. EELS – The EELS venture is liable for the primary Ethereum protocol reference specification written in Python, which goals in the direction of changing the yellow-paper specification and being a vital support to the EIP course of to be able to present a prototyping framework for brand new updates.
   Take a look at the Devcon SEA 2024 talk on EELS.

   Most well-liked expertise: Spec writing, technical documentation, formal verification

6. Geth – Geth (go-ethereum) is a Go implementation of Ethereum – a gateway into the decentralized internet. Geth has been a core a part of Ethereum for the reason that very starting. Geth was one of many unique Ethereum implementations making it probably the most battle-hardened and examined shopper.
   Geth is an Ethereum execution shopper that means it handles transactions, deployment and execution of good contracts and comprises an embedded laptop often known as the Ethereum Digital Machine. Working Geth alongside a consensus shopper turns a pc into an Ethereum node.
   You’ll find extra info on Geth’s website.

   Most well-liked expertise: Go, devp2p

7. Account Abstraction – The AA group focuses on the event, progress and coordination efforts associated to account abstraction and chain abstraction, which began through the ERC-4337 standard, and proceed by means of extra requirements and protocol stage adjustments on L1 in addition to L2s.
   The group is liable for analysis and growth of varied parts and requirements of account abstraction, chain abstraction and cross-L2 communication. It additionally helps entities within the ecosystem which are constructing on high of those requirements, whereas advocating for his or her general adoption within the house by means of training, conferences, grants and different progress methods.

   Most well-liked expertise: Solidity, EVM, ERC4337, pockets design

8. Generalist – You probably have a selected venture in thoughts that offers with the final Ethereum governance course of or one other core protocol venture, suggest it!

   Abilities: This position is for distinctive people with particular tasks in thoughts and intimate familiarity with the Ethereum governance course of.