Asserting the 2025 EF Internship Program!

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

The Ethereum Basis is working its first formal summer time internship program in 2025 geared toward nurturing the subsequent era 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 equivalent to protocol safety, account abstraction, scaling analysis, shopper growth, and extra. For instance, a previous intern labored on MEV smoothing analysis earlier than finally becoming a member of the EF full time.

Who is that this for?

Candidates must be conversant in the Ethereum protocol and accessible 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 crew with whom they apply to work.

Program

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

EPF vs internship

The internship is geared towards these accessible 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 information and a want for full-time work in Ethereum.

Utility Course of

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

The period of this system will probably 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 crew safeguards Ethereum’s integrity. Via coordination, meticulous code opinions, analysis, growing superior tooling, and real-world simulations, we deal with securing the community and its essential elements. Our hands-on strategy contains 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. Try the Protocol Safety README

   Most well-liked expertise: Cybersecurity lessons or expertise

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

   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 info availability drawback for “mild” nodes with out having to belief or put additional pressure on full nodes, by sharing the required knowledge in small chunks throughout the community. Try the ethereum.org explainer, talks from Devcon SEA 2024, Devcon Bogotá 2022, the community specs.

   Most well-liked expertise: Pc science lessons, some Rust information

4. Testing – The EEST challenge is answerable for the Ethereum protocol reference assessments, utilized by all purchasers to detect consensus points throughout new hard-fork implementations and regressions.
   The crew additionally takes care of sustaining and enhancing the tooling, frameworks, documentation and steering required to facilitate the shopper builders with the consumption of the assessments, which incorporates the EEST, the legacy ethereum/assessments repository, and likewise integration assessments within the type of varied hive simulators.
   Try the Devcon SEA 2024 discuss on EEST.

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

5. EELS – The EELS challenge is answerable for the principle Ethereum protocol reference specification written in Python, which goals in the direction of changing the yellow-paper specification and being a vital assist to the EIP course of to be able to present a prototyping framework for brand new updates.
   Try the Devcon SEA 2024 discuss 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 because the 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 which means it handles transactions, deployment and execution of sensible contracts and accommodates an embedded laptop generally known as the Ethereum Digital Machine. Operating Geth alongside a consensus shopper turns a pc into an Ethereum node.
   Yow will discover extra info on Geth’s web site.

   Most well-liked expertise: Go, devp2p

7. Account Abstraction – The AA crew focuses on the event, progress and coordination efforts associated to account abstraction and chain abstraction, which began by way of the ERC-4337 normal, and proceed by means of further requirements and protocol stage modifications on L1 in addition to L2s.
   The crew is answerable for analysis and growth of varied elements and requirements of account abstraction, chain abstraction and cross-L2 communication. It additionally helps entities within the ecosystem which can be constructing on prime of those requirements, whereas advocating for his or her general adoption within the house by means of schooling, conferences, grants and different progress methods.

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

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

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