Christopher Charles Faber
About Christopher Charles Faber
Christopher Charles Faber is a Design Verification Engineer currently employed at Ampere in the Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area. He has a diverse background in education and engineering, having worked as a teacher and held various roles in software and verification engineering across several organizations.
Work at Ampere
Christopher Charles Faber has been employed at Ampere as a Design Verification Engineer since 2022. He is based in the Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area. In this role, he develops and maintains design verification collateral specifically for the load-store unit and memory cluster of ARM64-based CPUs. His expertise includes memory system verification, which is crucial for ensuring the reliability and performance of ARM-based processors.
Previous Teaching Experience
Before his engineering career, Faber worked in education as a teacher. He served as a Physical Science and Biology Teacher at Newberg High School for nine months in 2016. He also held positions as a science and engineering teacher for middle and high school students, including a role as a Physical Science Teacher at Bohannon Middle School in 2012. Additionally, he worked as a Substitute Teacher at Portland Public Schools from 2017 to 2018.
Internships and Early Career
Faber has gained diverse experience through various internships. He worked as a Verification and Software Engineering Intern at Sagetech Avionics, Inc. in 2020 for six months. He also completed an internship at NASA as a DevOps and FPGA Engineering Intern in 2021 for three months. His early career included a role as an Archaeology/Anthropology Museum Assistant at the University of California, Davis in 2010 and as an Archaeology Field Assistant at the University of Reading in 2009.
Education and Expertise
Faber holds a Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Portland State University, which he completed from 2017 to 2022. He also earned a Bachelor of Science in Anthropology from the University of California, Davis, from 2006 to 2010. Additionally, he achieved a Single-Subject Teaching Credential through the Teaching Credential Program at CSU East Bay from 2011 to 2012. His educational background supports his technical expertise in design verification and memory system verification.
Technical Skills and Specializations
Faber specializes in memory system verification for ARM-based CPUs, which is essential for the performance of modern computing systems. He has experience programming drivers for aircraft transponders and developing signal processing code for communications satellites. His technical skills are complemented by his educational background in electrical and computer engineering, enhancing his capabilities in the field of design verification.