Announcing the Ethereum Season of Internships

Every year, the Ethereum ecosystem welcomes thousands of builders done assemblage events, hackathons, courses, bootcamps, and field clubs. However, galore newcomers conflict to stay engaged, arsenic they look challenges securing structured early-career opportunities. The Ethereum Season of Internships straight addresses this retention spread by creating a coordinated postulation of internship opportunities crossed the ecosystem.

What is the Ethereum Season of Internships?

The Ethereum Season of Internships offers a coordinated postulation of paid, afloat distant summertime internships crossed the Ethereum ecosystem. This inaugural creates pathways for the adjacent procreation of contributors to link with Ethereum projects and use their divers skills successful development, research, design, marketing, finance, legal, and more.

Our semipermanent imaginativeness is to marque Ethereum an progressively welcoming abstraction for caller talent, gathering a sustainable pipeline that transforms newcomers into committed semipermanent contributors.

Internship Structure

• Duration: 12 weeks (August - October 2025)
• Eligibility: Open to all, particularly early-career professionals and students
• Host Organizations: Various teams passim the Ethereum ecosystem
• Compensation: Paid opportunities (specific amounts determined by hosts)
• Flexibility: Both full-time and part-time positions available

Interested successful Hosting an Intern this Summer?

Hosting teams tin not lone link with passionate talents (i.e., imaginable aboriginal hires!), they tin besides experimentation with much lightweight ways to impact caller contributors successful their projects. And by joining forces, we tin summation the visibility of internship opportunities and pull adjacent much people.

To suffice arsenic a host, your squad must:

• Be an progressive contributor to the Ethereum ecosystem (L2s, infrastructure, research, tooling, applications, etc.)
• Demonstrate alignment with Ethereum's halfway values: decentralization, censorship resistance, open-source innovation, privacy, and security
• Maintain open-source projects for interns to enactment on
• Provide intelligibly defined projects oregon tasks with circumstantial learning outcomes
• Have astatine slightest 5 full-time contributors disposable to enactment and mentor interns
• Not beryllium a existent subordinate successful the Ethereum Protocol Fellowship (EPF)

As a host, your squad volition beryllium liable for:

• Reviewing and selecting interns aligned with your projects and mentorship capableness (selection deadline: mid-July)
• Establishing ceremonial agreements with selected interns
• Managing paid internships during the 12-week play (August - October 2025)
• Delivering accordant enactment and mentorship passim the program
• Documenting and sharing your acquisition to assistance amended aboriginal iterations

Timeline & Next Steps

• May 28, 2025: Deadline to apply arsenic a big organization
• June 29, 2025: Deadline to use arsenic an intern
• August 2025: Program begins

Join Us successful Cultivating a Resilient Ecosystem

If you're a person successful the Ethereum ecosystem funny successful processing pathways for caller talent, we invitation you to go a big organization. Your information helps signifier the adjacent procreation of Ethereum contributors.

For questions oregon further information, interaction america astatine nextbillion@ethereum.org.

Intern applications volition unfastened successful the coming weeks. Stay tuned for announcements astir the exertion process and disposable positions.