Announcing the 2025 EF Internship Program!

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

The Ethereum Basis is working its first formal summer season internship program in 2025 aimed 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 akin 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 needs 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 staff with whom they apply to work.

Program

Chosen interns shall be assigned a short-term challenge 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 shall 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 normal skillset and a need to learn to apply that skillset to the Ethereum area. In distinction, the prevailing Ethereum Protocol Fellowship is a six month program that assumes superior data and a need for full-time work in Ethereum.

Software Course of

Purposes are dwell 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 period of this system shall 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. By coordination, meticulous code opinions, analysis, growing superior tooling, and real-world simulations, we concentrate on securing the community and its essential parts. Our hands-on strategy 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. Take a look at the Protocol Security README

   Most popular abilities: Cybersecurity courses or expertise

2. Strong Incentives Group – The Strong Incentives Group is a analysis staff 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 potential, we suggest mechanisms to get better incentive compatibility and system optimality. Our strategies are diverse, from formal evaluation to knowledge science and simulations, and we interact tutorial and normal 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 popular abilities: 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 unravel the info availability drawback for “gentle” nodes with out having to belief or put further pressure on full nodes, by sharing the required 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 popular abilities: Laptop science courses, some Rust data

4. Testing – The EEST challenge is accountable 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 bettering 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 in addition integration checks within the type of numerous hive simulators.
   Take a look at the Devcon SEA 2024 talk on EEST.

   Most popular abilities: Testing frameworks (Hive) and methodologies (fuzzing, simulations)

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

   Most popular abilities: 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 essentially the most battle-hardened and examined consumer.
   Geth is an Ethereum execution consumer that means it handles transactions, deployment and execution of good contracts and comprises an embedded pc referred to as the Ethereum Digital Machine. Operating Geth alongside a consensus consumer turns a pc into an Ethereum node.
   You will discover extra data on Geth’s website.

   Most popular abilities: 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 through the ERC-4337 standard, and proceed via extra requirements and protocol stage adjustments on L1 in addition to L2s.
   The staff is accountable for analysis and growth of assorted parts and requirements of account abstraction, chain abstraction and cross-L2 communication. It additionally helps entities within the ecosystem which are constructing on prime of those requirements, whereas advocating for his or her general adoption within the house via training, conferences, grants and different development methods.

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

8. Generalist – When you’ve got a selected challenge in thoughts that offers with the final Ethereum governance course of or one other core protocol challenge, suggest it!

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