how does one join facebook ai? for SDEs you do the bootcamp, pick a team and join. what about AI teams? can someone please shed some light into this.
You are looking for a ML specialist. Then you need to interview for that specific role. There will be domain specific interview round. I don't think you can join a core ML team from general SWE.
You can be preallocated to a team if you exactly know which team you want to join and if you insist that to your recruiter. Regardless of the preallocation, bootcamp is must if you are a software developer. That's 3-6 weeks of training that is essential for you to survive inside Facebook. In bootcamp, you will take the "ML" path, and learn more about ML infrastructure inside Facebook.