EV Charging Station Engineer Salary — Field & Office Roles

India's EV charging market is scaling 50%+ year-on-year and pulling along a diverse workforce — from field installers to OCPP firmware specialists. The pay scales differ sharply by role type. Here's the 2026 breakdown.

Field roles

• Charging Station Installer — ₹2.5-6.5 L entry, ₹6.5-12 L senior
• Charging Service Technician — ₹5-12 L (regional dispatch)
• Site Engineer (deployment) — ₹8-22 L
• Field Operations Engineer (regional cluster) — ₹12-28 L

Hardware engineering

• AC charger designer — ₹14-28 L
• DC fast charger designer — ₹20-55 L
• MCS / V2G designer (emerging) — ₹35-90 L

Firmware + software

• Charger firmware engineer (OCPP) — ₹14-28 L mid, ₹28-55 L senior
• ISO 15118 plug-and-charge engineer — ₹22-55 L
• CMS / platform engineer — ₹18-50 L
• DevOps for charging platform — ₹16-45 L

Commercial + ops

• Site BD manager — ₹12-32 L
• Charging product manager — ₹25-65 L
• Network operations head — ₹40-90 L
• Head of Charging Infrastructure — ₹80 L-1.8 Cr

Where to go from here

Charging-infra hiring will grow faster than any other EV sub-sector through 2030. Pick a track that suits you — field engineers earn less but become indispensable to operators, while hardware / firmware specialists earn more but compete against a shrinking talent pool.

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