Let’s invent something together. Every day, Mozilla Research engineers tackle the most challenging problems on the web platform. All our promising solutions are developed in open communities, so we can build the Internet of the future together.



Mixed Reality

Build virtual and augmented reality applications for headsets and browsers.



Open Media

Tomorrow’s media codecs and formats should be scalable, web-friendly and open to all.


Machine learning research for speech engines

Speech & Machine Learning

This speech-to-text engine uses deep learning techniques to improve accuracy.



Rust

Get speed, parallelism, and safety in this modern systems programming language.



Servo

This modern browser engine, written in Rust, takes advantage of parallel-processing hardware.


WebAssembly research

WebAssembly

Speed up JavaScript apps using the wasm format as a compiler target.

How to Get Involved

Join us. We’re looking for talented folks to join our Emerging Technologies team. You’ll work on projects with potential to turn into end-user products – and make the web a better place.

Research Grants

Mozilla gives out over $500,000 a year to support academic research worldwide on topics including virtual reality, computing ethics, accessibility and open data. Interested? Check research.mozilla.com for our fall and spring deadlines.

Conference Sponsorships

Interested in getting support for your research conference or developer conference? We’d like to help. Read through our guidelines, and apply for a conference sponsorship. Learn more.

Research Internships

Join us for a three-month internship. We accept applications from graduate students in the fall for the following summer. Visit Mozilla’s Careers page to see available internships.

Faculty Collaborations

We welcome Visiting Scientists, Developers, Engineers, Artists and others to work with us on research experiments and independent projects. Get in touch with a Mozilla team member to learn more.

Volunteer

MDN Web Docs relies on contributions from volunteer editors and translators to make this open knowledge repository the best it can be. Want to dig deep into web APIs? This is the place. To find out how to join the MDN volunteer community, visit MDN’s Getting Started page.