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 following 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 ultimately becoming a member of the EF full time.

Who is that this for?

Candidates needs to be familiar with the Ethereum protocol and out there 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 workforce with whom they apply to work.

Program

Chosen interns shall be assigned a short-term venture 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 shall be invited for an in-person cohort meetup in the summertime.

EPF vs internship

The internship is geared towards these out there 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.

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 length 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. Via coordination, meticulous code evaluations, analysis, growing superior tooling, and real-world simulations, we deal with securing the community and its vital elements. Our hands-on method consists of 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. Take a look at the Protocol Security README

   Most popular expertise: Cybersecurity courses or expertise

2. Strong Incentives Group – The Strong 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 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 knowledge science and simulations, and we interact tutorial and normal audiences with numerous codecs of grants, publications and talks. Take a look at 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 info availability downside for “mild” 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 expertise: Laptop science courses, some Rust information

4. Testing – The EEST venture is answerable for the Ethereum protocol reference exams, utilized by all purchasers to detect consensus points throughout new hard-fork implementations and regressions.
   The workforce additionally takes care of sustaining and bettering the tooling, frameworks, documentation and steering required to facilitate the shopper builders with the consumption of the exams, which incorporates the EEST, the legacy ethereum/exams repository, and likewise integration exams within the type of numerous hive simulators.
   Take a look at the Devcon SEA 2024 talk on EEST.

   Most popular 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 assist to the EIP course of with a view to present a prototyping framework for brand new updates.
   Take a look at 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 internet. 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 shopper.
   Geth is an Ethereum execution shopper which means it handles transactions, deployment and execution of good contracts and incorporates an embedded laptop often called the Ethereum Digital Machine. Working Geth alongside a consensus shopper turns a pc into an Ethereum node.
   You’ll find extra data on Geth’s website.

   Most popular 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 standard, and proceed by means of further requirements and protocol stage adjustments 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 general adoption within the area by means of schooling, conferences, grants and different development methods.

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

8. Generalist – You probably have a selected venture in thoughts that offers with the final Ethereum governance course of or one other core protocol venture, suggest it!

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