Students’ career options in EV—so many paths and career choices for their college
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- September 25, 2025
Students’ career options in EV for their college
EV is a massive industry and it brings a huge variety of career options for the students—infrastructure, design, policy, logistics, QA, analysis, strategy, and many more.
A student asked us about the scope of EV engineering and they shared this post by EV Careers, to discuss the EV engineering careers and skills. It opened new opportunities to explore the career options and choices in the broader EV industry.
Here is a quick reference to some of these career options for the students who are seeking career guidance and counselling for selecting the career path and the college after finishing their school.
Battery Technology Engineering
Working on battery technology and engineering is a key part in EV design and engineering. The automakers’ industry is always trying to find new methodologies to make batteries more sustainable, usable, and affordable for the electrical vehicles. Their criteria are regulatory, cost, affordability, life-span, compliance for environment and climate, and other factors.
You can see some international conferences in this category such as the advanced automotive battery conference. There are experts who have been sharing their experiences over the years on LinkedIn, for example Frederik Morgenstern.
Charging Infrastructure Design
A Charging Infrastructure Designer works with the EV policy and EV infrastructure to plan the EV charging network, charging terminals, and the support structure for the charging cycle. They work on the network design, port design, hardware, and they work with the software and IT engineers to set up the EV charging infrastructure.
They understand electrical grids, basic modelling, grid integration, energy impact, and network design concepts. If electrical components and design interest you, this is an emerging career option in Indian market.
EV Software Engineers
The EV software engineers weave their magic via writing the code to power the EV systems and the vehicles. EPG explains the skills required for EV software engineers in detail—and the specific skills required in the industry.
Traditionally, the knowledge of embedded systems, C++, and Python have been the preferred skills while hiring EV software engineers, it might change to include new technology and programming languages now.
Policy, compliance, sustainability
This is such an important role in EV—to work on policy for regulatory and compliance for government policies. These include working with legal teams while partnering with other agencies and vendors, laisioning with the Government departments.
They define the organization’s sustainability practices and the standards for different teams—for emissions, use of natural resources, carbon footprints, waste disposal, and compliance throughout the life cycle of the vehicles and energy production and distribution.
Other career paths in EV for the students
- Product managers—for the EV production lifecycle
- QA—For quality assurance at different stages in the production cycle
- Project managers—Who own a single project for specific category of vehicles, or for a region for infrastructure engineering
EV is not about energy or mobility only—it calls for a shift in how we see infrastructure and city design for the future. This post by Anthropocene refers to a study which is primarily meant for the US market but some of the findings apply to many other countries, including in India.
The career choices and the options in this post are not a comprehensive list. You will see many new types of jobs such as EV policy working with town planning and architects, EV sales as a different skill, EV support, EV research and analysis, EV automation for the driverless vehicles, and others. If you are not sure, take our free trial and steer your career discovery.
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