Announcing the 2025 EF Internship Program!

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

The Ethereum Basis is operating 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 reminiscent of protocol safety, account abstraction, scaling analysis, shopper improvement, and extra. For instance, a previous intern labored on MEV smoothing research earlier than finally becoming a member of the EF full time.

Who is that this for?

Candidates ought to be familiar with the Ethereum protocol and obtainable for full-time work. If at present 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 can be assigned a short-term mission and a mentor and will 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 can be invited for an in-person cohort meetup in the summertime.

EPF vs internship

The internship is geared towards these obtainable for an outlined ‘summer season’ dedication with a basic skillset and a need 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 need for full-time work in Ethereum.

Utility Course of

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

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

You possibly can apply for the roles right here:

Mentoring groups

1. Protocol Safety – The Protocol Safety Analysis crew safeguards Ethereum’s integrity. By way of coordination, meticulous code opinions, analysis, creating superior tooling, and real-world simulations, we give attention to securing the community and its crucial elements. Our hands-on method 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 Security README

   Most well-liked expertise: Cybersecurity courses 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 doable, we suggest mechanisms to get well incentive compatibility and system optimality. Our strategies are various, from formal evaluation to information science and simulations, and we have interaction educational and basic audiences with various codecs of grants, publications and talks. Try 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 info availability drawback for “mild” nodes with out having to belief or put additional pressure on full nodes, by sharing the required information in small chunks throughout the community. Try 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 mission is chargeable for the Ethereum protocol reference exams, utilized by all purchasers to detect consensus points throughout new hard-fork implementations and regressions.
   The crew additionally takes care of sustaining and bettering the tooling, frameworks, documentation and steerage required to facilitate the shopper builders with the consumption of the exams, which incorporates the EEST, the legacy ethereum/exams repository, and in addition integration exams within the type of varied hive simulators.
   Try the Devcon SEA 2024 talk on EEST.

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

5. EELS – The EELS mission is chargeable 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 support to the EIP course of with the intention to present a prototyping framework for brand spanking new updates.
   Try 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 which means it handles transactions, deployment and execution of sensible contracts and incorporates an embedded laptop often called the Ethereum Digital Machine. Operating Geth alongside a consensus shopper turns a pc into an Ethereum node.
   You will discover extra data on Geth’s website.

   Most well-liked expertise: Go, devp2p

7. Account Abstraction – The AA crew focuses on the event, development and coordination efforts associated to account abstraction and chain abstraction, which began by way of the ERC-4337 standard, and proceed via further requirements and protocol degree modifications on L1 in addition to L2s.
   The crew is chargeable for analysis and improvement of varied elements 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 area via training, conferences, grants and different development methods.

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

8. Generalist – In case you have a particular mission in thoughts that offers with the final Ethereum governance course of or one other core protocol mission, suggest it!

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