Asserting the 2025 EF Internship Program!

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

The Ethereum Basis is working its first formal summer time internship program in 2025 aimed toward nurturing the following 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, shopper improvement, 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 presently in college, they need to be superior of their research. Candidates ought to have demonstrable curiosity within the speciality of the workforce with whom they apply to work.

Program

Chosen interns shall be assigned a short-term venture 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 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 prevailing Ethereum Protocol Fellowship is a six month program that assumes superior information and a want for full-time work in Ethereum.

Utility 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 workforce 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 important elements. Our hands-on strategy contains managing the bug bounty program, constantly 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. Sturdy Incentives Group – The Sturdy Incentives Group is a analysis workforce 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 various, 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 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 unravel the information availability drawback for “gentle” 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 venture is answerable for the Ethereum protocol reference assessments, utilized by all shoppers to detect consensus points throughout new hard-fork implementations and regressions.
   The workforce additionally takes care of sustaining and enhancing the tooling, frameworks, documentation and steerage 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 speak on EEST.

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

5. EELS – The EELS venture is answerable 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 help to the EIP course of with a purpose to present a prototyping framework for brand spanking 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 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 that means it handles transactions, deployment and execution of good contracts and incorporates an embedded pc generally known as 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 web site.

   Most well-liked expertise: Go, devp2p

7. Account Abstraction – The AA workforce focuses on the event, development and coordination efforts associated to account abstraction and chain abstraction, which began through the ERC-4337 customary, and proceed by way of further requirements and protocol degree modifications on L1 in addition to L2s.
   The workforce is answerable for analysis and improvement 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 total adoption within the house by way of schooling, conferences, grants and different development methods.

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

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

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