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 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 corresponding to protocol safety, account abstraction, scaling analysis, consumer 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 ought to be aware of the Ethereum protocol and accessible 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 staff with whom they apply to work.

Program

Chosen interns will probably be assigned a short-term undertaking 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 normal skillset and a need 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 need 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 length of this system will probably 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 staff safeguards Ethereum’s integrity. Via coordination, meticulous code opinions, analysis, growing superior tooling, and real-world simulations, we give attention to securing the community and its essential parts. Our hands-on strategy consists of managing the bug bounty program, repeatedly monitoring the community, and collaborating with consumer groups. We’re dedicated to figuring out and mitigating dangers to Ethereum mainnet. Try the Protocol Safety README

   Most well-liked expertise: Cybersecurity courses or expertise

2. Sturdy Incentives Group – The Sturdy Incentives Group is a analysis staff 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 doable, we suggest mechanisms to recuperate incentive compatibility and system optimality. Our strategies are various, from formal evaluation to information science and simulations, and we interact tutorial and normal audiences with various codecs of grants, publications and talks. Try our work on our homepage and comply with our updates with our e-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 downside for “mild” nodes with out having to belief or put additional pressure on full nodes, by sharing the mandatory information 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: Laptop science courses, some Rust information

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

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

5. EELS – The EELS undertaking 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 an important assist to the EIP course of with a view to present a prototyping framework for brand new updates.
   Try the Devcon SEA 2024 speak 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 essentially the most battle-hardened and examined consumer.
   Geth is an Ethereum execution consumer which means it handles transactions, deployment and execution of good contracts and incorporates an embedded laptop generally known as the Ethereum Digital Machine. Operating Geth alongside a consensus consumer turns a pc into an Ethereum node.
   You’ll find extra data on Geth’s web site.

   Most well-liked expertise: Go, devp2p

7. Account Abstraction – The AA staff focuses on the event, development and coordination efforts associated to account abstraction and chain abstraction, which began by way of the ERC-4337 normal, and proceed by further requirements and protocol stage adjustments on L1 in addition to L2s.
   The staff 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 might be constructing on high of those requirements, whereas advocating for his or her total adoption within the house by schooling, conferences, grants and different development methods.

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

8. Generalist – You probably have a selected undertaking in thoughts that offers with the overall 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.