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Kearny, NJInternship$24–29/hrPosted todayStill listed today
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Job overview
Thea Energy is developing a commercial fusion-energy approach based on computer-controlled planar-coil arrays. The IT Intern supports employees with hardware, software, and network troubleshooting; device setup and maintenance; account provisioning; documentation; inventory tracking; and IT infrastructure projects. The ideal candidate is pursuing or recently completed relevant education, has basic desktop operating-system and networking knowledge, and brings problem-solving, communication, and reliability skills.
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About Thea Energy: Thea Energy is leveraging recent breakthroughs in stellarator physics and engineering to create a faster and simpler approach to commercializing fusion energy. The company is reinventing the stellarator using computer-controlled arrays of planar coils thereby replacing the intricate, complex modular magnets required in all other stellarator architectures. Thea Energy is on a mission to create a limitless source of zero emission energy for a sustainable future.
Key Responsibilities:
- Help Desk Support: Assist with initial triage, troubleshooting, and resolution of hardware, software, and network issues for local and remote employees.
- Device Management: Help configure, deploy, and maintain company laptops, workstations, printers, etc.
- Software & Account Setup: Assist with user onboarding and offboarding, including setting up accounts in Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Active Directory, or other internal tools.
- Documentation: Create and update internal IT guides, FAQs, and troubleshooting documentation for employees.
- Inventory Tracking: Maintain an accurate inventory of hardware, software licenses, and peripheral equipment.
- Project Assistance: Provide support on upcoming IT infrastructure projects (e.g., system migrations, network upgrades, or security audits).
Ideal Experience & Skillsets:
- Education: Currently pursuing or recently completed a degree/certification in Computer Science, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, or a related field.
- Technical Knowledge: Basic understanding of desktop operating systems (Windows 10/11, macOS) and core networking concepts (IP addressing, Wi-Fi troubleshooting, DNS).
- Problem-Solving Skills: A logical approach to troubleshooting and a strong desire to figure out how things work.
- Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills; ability to explain technical fixes to non-technical users in a friendly, patient manner.
- Reliability: Ability to handle sensitive company data with discretion and maintain confidentiality.
Company Benefits:
- Salary range $24/hour - $29/hour
Requirements:
- Ability to occasionally lift up to 50 lbs.
- Ability to perform activities such as typing, standing, or sitting for extended periods of time.
- Ability to work in a facility that contains industrial hazards including heat, cold, noise, fumes, strong magnets, high voltage, high current, pressure systems, and cryogenics.
How this job compares
Set against the 2,922 open IT Support jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 29, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$24–29/hr
- US median$25–30/hr785 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $26.50/hr, is 4% below the US median midpoint ($28/hr) — in the middle half of IT Support hourly ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 39 open IT Support jobs in New Jersey and 2,922 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in New Jersey
- ASM Research, An Accenture Federal Services Company5 open
- Amazon3 open
- Ascendis Pharma2 open
- Experience
- IT Support postings that state a minimum ask for 2 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 4 years (2,041 postings).
- Education
- 525 of the 2,922 open IT Support jobs (18%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 29, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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