Build and scale Ethereum Foundation partnerships with universities, research institutions, and academic communities. Translate ecosystem research priorities into academic opportunities, identify relevant scholars, manage strategic partnerships, design workshops and educational programs, distribute research, support academic funding pathways, and report on program outcomes. The role requires coordinating global stakeholders, understanding academic research practices, and communicating across disciplines and cultures.

Perform protocol-focused security research to prevent vulnerabilities on Ethereum mainnet. Tasks include AI-assisted analysis, fuzzing, manual review, reviewing hardforks and spec changes, improving security tooling and automation, coordinating disclosures, and supporting audits and audit competitions while collaborating with devops, specifications authors, and client implementers.