Announcing the 2025 EF Internship Program!

The 2025 Ethereum Basis internship purposes are open! Each analysis and improvement groups have open positions. Functions 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 initiatives in key areas comparable to protocol safety, account abstraction, scaling analysis, consumer improvement, and extra. For instance, a previous intern labored on MEV smoothing analysis earlier than ultimately becoming a member of the EF full time.

Who is that this for?

Candidates needs to be acquainted 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 staff with whom they apply to work.

Program

Chosen interns shall 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 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 common 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.

Software Course of

Functions are stay 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 evaluations, analysis, growing superior tooling, and real-world simulations, we give attention to securing the community and its essential elements. 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 abilities: 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 immediately or not directly have an effect on customers and protocol stakeholders of Ethereum. The place potential, we suggest mechanisms to get well incentive compatibility and system optimality. Our strategies are different, from formal evaluation to knowledge science and simulations, and we have interaction educational and common audiences with numerous codecs of grants, publications and talks. Try our work on our homepage and comply with our updates with our e-newsletter!

   Most well-liked 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 resolve the information availability drawback for “gentle” nodes with out having to belief or put further 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 community specs.

   Most well-liked abilities: Laptop science courses, some Rust information

4. Testing – The EEST undertaking is accountable for the Ethereum protocol reference assessments, 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 steerage required to facilitate the consumer builders with the consumption of the assessments, which incorporates the EEST, the legacy ethereum/assessments repository, and likewise integration assessments within the type of numerous hive simulators.
   Try the Devcon SEA 2024 speak on EEST.

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

5. EELS – The EELS undertaking is accountable for the primary Ethereum protocol reference specification written in Python, which goals in the direction of changing the yellow-paper specification and being a vital 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 abilities: 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 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 which means it handles transactions, deployment and execution of good contracts and comprises an embedded laptop 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 web site.

   Most well-liked 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 customary, and proceed by extra requirements and protocol stage adjustments on L1 in addition to L2s.
   The staff is accountable 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 training, conferences, grants and different development methods.

   Most well-liked abilities: 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!

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