Software Engineering Intern, Ethereum Foundation
$8,000 - $8,000 a month
Non-profit organisation supporting Ethereum and related technologies
Open for applications
Non-profit organisation supporting Ethereum and related technologies
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$8,000 - $8,000 a month
101-200 employees
Company mission
To do what is best for Ethereum’s long-term success.
Role
Who you are
- Currently pursuing a degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field
- Demonstrated experience in one or more of the following areas: cybersecurity, mechanism design, cryptography, distributed systems, or smart contract development
- Proficiency in relevant programming languages, such as Go, Rust, Python, or Solidity
- Familiarity with Ethereum projects, protocols, and tooling, such as go-ethereum, hive, ERC-4337, or the EVM
- Strong communication skills and a passion for open-source collaboration
What the job involves
- Join our mission to build and safeguard the Ethereum protocol. Interns will work alongside leading experts at the Ethereum Foundation and across the ecosystem, contributing to critical projects that advance the protocol, improve network security, enhance tooling, and push the boundaries of blockchain technology
- This role is an exceptional opportunity to gain hands-on experience with cutting-edge engineering while shaping the future of Ethereum
- Interns can choose to either work remotely, or in one of the EF offices, in Boulder (USA) or Berlin (Germany)
- In addition, interns will be invited for an in-person cohort meetup in the summer
- The internship is 12 weeks during summer 2025. Interns will be hired to one of the following projects
- The Portal Network is a new networking design for Ethereum that aims to solve the data availability problem for “light” nodes without having to trust or put extra strain on full nodes, by sharing the necessary data in small chunks across the network
- Ethereum Execution Spec Tests (EEST) project is responsible for the Ethereum protocol reference tests, used by all clients to detect consensus issues during new hard-fork implementations and regressions
- The team also takes care of maintaining and improving the tooling, frameworks, documentation and guidance required to facilitate the client developers with the consumption of the tests, which includes the EEST, the legacy ethereum/tests repository, and also integration tests in the form of various hive simulators
- The Ethereum Execution Layer Specification (EELS) project is responsible for the main Ethereum protocol reference specification written in Python, which aims towards replacing the yellow-paper specification and being a crucial aid to the EIP process in order to provide a prototyping framework for new updates
- Go-ethereum (geth) is as a Golang implementation of the Ethereum execution layer
- The Account Abstraction team focuses on the development, growth and coordination efforts related to account abstraction and chain abstraction, which started via the ERC-4337 standard, and continue through additional standards and protocol level changes on L1 as well as L2s
- It is responsible for research and development of various components and standards of account abstraction, chain abstraction and cross-L2 communication
- It also supports entities in the ecosystem that are building on top of these standards, while advocating for their overall adoption in the space through education, conferences, grants and other growth strategies
- The Protocol Security Research team safeguards Ethereum’s integrity
- Through coordination, meticulous code reviews, research, developing advanced tooling, and real-world simulations, we focus on securing the network and its critical components
- Our hands-on approach includes managing the bug bounty program, continuously monitoring the network, and collaborating with client teams
- We’re committed to identifying and mitigating risks to Ethereum mainnet
- Collaborate with Ethereum Foundation teams to develop, test, and maintain tools, protocols, and specifications
- Contribute to projects such as client development, testing frameworks, protocol design, and security auditing
- Assist in developing and documenting standards and protocols for Ethereum and its ecosystem
- Conduct research and simulations to address critical technical challenges in areas like security, data availability, and scalability
- Contribute to open-source codebases and participate in technical discussions and reviews
Our take
Likening itself to a “community of teams” rather than a traditional organisation. Ethereum Foundation is a non-profit designed to support the development of Ethereum (the platform and programme language supporting the building and publishing of decentralised apps) and other related technologies.
Boasting the achievement of being the third highest crowd-funded project of all time, its open-source platform aims to decentralise the web, claiming “Ethereum is how the Internet was supposed to work”. The company has captured the attention of Microsoft and was incorporated in Microsoft’s cloud computing platform and services.
Acquiring significant funding over the years Ethereum is definitely one to watch. Releasing consistent new development and nurturing its long standing projects, the Ethereum Foundation has a strong base of values that have been kept on since the beginning. It'll be exciting to see how it evolves as the web world does.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company benefits
- Remote-first: our team is distributed across the globe (with option of offices in e.g. Berlin or Boulder)
- Flat hierarchy: independence in day-to-day work
- Optional travel throughout the year: Ethereum conferences, research workshops, annual Devcon event
- Collaborations with academia & industry: we maintain collaborations on high-impact projects with the industry and grant relationships with academia
- Flexible PTO
Company values
- commitment to decentralisation
- open access
- support the Ethereum Ecosystem
- long term thinking
- subtract our power
- subtract to prioritise and focus
Company HQ
Mitte, Berlin, Germany
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Leadership
Anthony Di Iorio
(Co-founder)Avid entrepreneur, most recently founded Dencentral.tv and Decentral where they also act as CEO.
Charles Hoskinson
(Co-founder)Founded Invictus Innovations. Founding Chairman of Bitcoin Foundation's Education Committee.
Gavin Wood
(Co-founder)Former CTO of Ethereum Foundation. Currently President and Founder of Web3 Foundation alongside being Founder and Lead Developer of Parity Technologies.
Joseph Lubin
(Co-founder)Founded ConsenSys in Oct 2014 where they also act as CEO.
Mihai Alisie
(Co-founder)Founded AKASHA Project in 2015 and Bitcoin Magazine in 2011.
Vitalik Buterin
(Co-founder)Previously working as a Developer Intern at NextThought, LLC. Currently writing for Bitcoin Magazine.
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