Announcing the 2025 EF Internship Program!

The 2025 Ethereum Basis internship functions 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 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 comparable to protocol safety, account abstraction, scaling analysis, consumer growth, 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 must be familiar with the Ethereum protocol and accessible for full-time work. If presently 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 can be assigned a short-term undertaking and a mentor and will count on 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 accessible for an outlined ‘summer season’ dedication with a normal skillset and a want to discover ways 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.

Software Course of

Functions are stay 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 group safeguards Ethereum’s integrity. Via coordination, meticulous code critiques, analysis, creating superior tooling, and real-world simulations, we give attention to securing the community and its important elements. Our hands-on method consists of managing the bug bounty program, constantly monitoring the community, and collaborating with consumer groups. We’re dedicated to figuring out and mitigating dangers to Ethereum mainnet. Try the Protocol Security README

   Most popular expertise: Cybersecurity lessons or expertise

2. Sturdy Incentives Group – The Sturdy Incentives Group is a analysis group devoted to the research 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 attainable, we suggest mechanisms to get better incentive compatibility and system optimality. Our strategies are assorted, from formal evaluation to knowledge science and simulations, and we have interaction educational and normal audiences with various codecs of grants, publications and talks. Try our work on our homepage and observe our updates with our newsletter!

   Most popular 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 additional pressure on full nodes, by sharing the mandatory knowledge in small chunks throughout the community. Try the ethereum.org explainer, talks from Devcon SEA 2024, Devcon Bogotá 2022, the network specs.

   Most popular expertise: Pc science lessons, some Rust information

4. Testing – The EEST undertaking is chargeable for the Ethereum protocol reference exams, utilized by all purchasers to detect consensus points throughout new hard-fork implementations and regressions.
   The group additionally takes care of sustaining and enhancing the tooling, frameworks, documentation and steerage required to facilitate the consumer 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 popular expertise: Testing frameworks (Hive) and methodologies (fuzzing, simulations)

5. EELS – The EELS undertaking 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 help to the EIP course of as a way to present a prototyping framework for brand new updates.
   Try the Devcon SEA 2024 talk on EELS.

   Most popular expertise: Spec writing, technical documentation, formal verification

6. Geth – Geth (go-ethereum) is a Go implementation of Ethereum – a gateway into the decentralized net. Geth has been a core a part of Ethereum for the reason that very starting. Geth was one of many authentic Ethereum implementations making it essentially the most battle-hardened and examined consumer.
   Geth is an Ethereum execution consumer which means it handles transactions, deployment and execution of sensible contracts and incorporates an embedded pc generally known as the Ethereum Digital Machine. Working Geth alongside a consensus consumer turns a pc into an Ethereum node.
   Yow will discover extra info on Geth’s website.

   Most popular 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 by way of the ERC-4337 standard, and proceed via extra requirements and protocol stage adjustments on L1 in addition to L2s.
   The group is chargeable for analysis and growth of assorted 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 area via schooling, conferences, grants and different progress methods.

   Most popular expertise: Solidity, EVM, ERC4337, pockets design

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

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