[litzer]

Not sure about in general, but it seems like their residency program [0] gives a good shot at landing on the team afterwards and is accessible to "normal" people passionate about ML

[0] https://research.google.com/teams/brain/residency/

[dontreact]

Another way is to do 20% and then transfer in which is what I did. That seems doable (I don't have PhD for example).

[jadekler1]

What do you mean by 20%?

[dontreact]

Start on another team at Google (preferably using ML) and do 20% time with Brain.