As a part-time desktop support engineer, you assist users with issues that arise with their computers, software, applications, or devices on a part-time schedule of fewer than 35 hours per week. You carry out your responsibilities in the IT department of a technology company, and you help employees of that company with their devices. Your duties are to troubleshoot and fix those technical issues, install new software, applications, or upgrades, and train others on using them. You can also work as part of a remote help desk team to offer remote technical support to employees of a company.