FAIR
What's the best way to get a foot in at FAIR? I'm finishing up a joint BA in math/MS in CS and I've heard apps submitted through company websites are tossed out usually.
Study French
Get a PhD focused on related machine learning / AI areas from a top tier institution, ideally with someone who was one of Yann's collaborators who can recommend you later.
I heard there were some positions available for undergrads/masters students. Is it just PhDs?
I'm not sure, I know the majority of the people in the group are either PhDs or experienced low-level systems engineers.
Go to academic conferences. We recruited from there when I was there and even now at Uber. Have a good publications record
There are SE's working in FAIR teams as well. You can get a job as SE at Facebook/FAIR and during Bootcamp work with FAIR teams. In this case you would usually work 1:1 with a Research Scientist on prototyping new ideas and taking them to production. If your interest, however, is in research, then a PhD/ papers in top conferences like NIPS, CVPR, ICLR would be a good way forward.
Get a PhD with as many top computer vision and machine learning conference papers as possible, ideally oral track. These are very competitive positions; you need to make yourself known to the world first.
Do an Yves Saint Laurent ad
Consider applying to brain residency at google
What is FAIR
Facebook AI Research
Probably should tag Facebook then. I thought it was some FANG-like acronym.