Announcing the 2025 EF Internship Program!

The 2025 Ethereum Basis internship functions 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 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 initiatives 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 acquainted with the Ethereum protocol and obtainable 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 will likely be assigned a short-term mission and a mentor and will 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 likely 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 common skillset and a need 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 need for full-time work in Ethereum.

Utility Course of

Functions are dwell and can shut on December 9, 2024. Preliminary screenings will likely be adopted by formal interviews, with the notification course of anticipated to be full by 10 Jan.

The length of this system will likely 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

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 deal with securing the community and its crucial parts. Our hands-on strategy contains 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. Take a look at the Protocol Safety README

Most popular abilities: Cybersecurity lessons or expertise

Sturdy Incentives Group – The Sturdy 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 attainable, we suggest mechanisms to get well incentive compatibility and system optimality. Our strategies are various, from formal evaluation to information science and simulations, and we interact educational and common 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 publication!

Most popular abilities: Familiarity with RIG initiatives, earlier work or writings in mechanism design or economics analysis

Portal Community – The Portal Community is a brand new networking design for Ethereum that goals to unravel the information availability drawback for “mild” nodes with out having to belief or put additional pressure on full nodes, by sharing the required information in small chunks throughout the community. Take a look at the ethereum.org explainer, talks from Devcon SEA 2024, Devcon Bogotá 2022, the community specs.

Most popular abilities: Laptop science lessons, some Rust information

Testing – The EEST mission is chargeable for the Ethereum protocol reference checks, utilized by all purchasers 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 checks, which incorporates the EEST, the legacy ethereum/checks repository, and likewise integration checks within the type of varied hive simulators.
Take a look at the Devcon SEA 2024 speak on EEST.

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

EELS – The EELS mission is chargeable 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 support to the EIP course of to be able to present a prototyping framework for brand new updates.
Take a look at the Devcon SEA 2024 speak on EELS.

Most popular abilities: Spec writing, technical documentation, formal verification

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 for the reason that very starting. Geth was one of many authentic 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 generally known as the Ethereum Digital Machine. Working Geth alongside a consensus consumer turns a pc into an Ethereum node.
You will discover extra data on Geth’s web site.