Ethereum Foundation seeks protocol security hire for AI-assisted core audits

The Ethereum Foundation is recruiting a protocol security researcher to examine vulnerabilities across Ethereum’s execution layer, consensus layer, peer-to-peer networking, specifications and client software, using AI-assisted analysis alongside fuzzing, manual audits and disclosure coordination. The global remote role follows a restructuring that cut 54 positions, or about 20% of the Foundation’s workforce, even as it continues to add staff in areas it considers critical. The move also comes after the Protocol Security team said on July 9 that coordinated AI agents had uncovered genuine flaws, including a remotely triggered panic in libp2p’s gossipsub component that was fixed before disclosure as CVE-2026-34219. The Foundation said the larger challenge was verifying which AI-generated findings were real, a workflow the new hire would help formalize as Ethereum reviews future hard forks and protocol changes.