You can definitely match to an interesting team if it has openings and your recruiter finds the opportunity for you. For example, when I joined I was working on

You can definitely match to an interesting team if it has openings and your recruiter finds the opportunity for you. For example, when I joined I was working on Instant Apps, a new and technically interesting project I'd heard of that hadn't launched yet. The clearer you are about what interests you the better the recruiter can be. The difficulty I saw was more that your actual slice of responsibility on such a project is likely to be somewhat small. Of course, your mileage may vary.