Product Engineer Intern

Direct Supply; Milwaukee (WI); On-site; USD 25,000 - 33,000; Full time

Job summary

Direct Supply seeks a Product Engineer Intern to support new product development and launches across a growing portfolio of healthcare products. You’ll gain hands-on engineering experience researching products, supporting testing, and contributing to cross-functional development while building skills in Quality Management and patent research.

Gain exposure to innovative product concepts, prototypes, and technical documentation, with a path to meaningful impact in a real-world medical technology

Qualifications

• Currently enrolled in a technical degree program in Engineering, Quality, Sciences, Technology, or a related field.
• 3 or more semesters remaining before graduation.
• Strong attention to detail and effective written and verbal communication.
• Ability to work independently and adapt to changing priorities.
• Strong mechanical aptitude and hands-on work 10–20% of the time.
• Eagerness to learn and apply new software, technologies, and engineering tools.
• Ability to work 20–25 hours per week during the school year and ~40 hours in summer.

Responsibilities

• Research products, components, and technologies to develop specs for new product introductions.
• Contribute to development projects led by senior engineers from concept through launch.
• Support cross-functional teams in identifying high‑value opportunities for new products.
• Review business plans and recommend technologies to meet product goals.
• Apply AI tools to R&D activities to improve insights and efficiency.
• Develop product tests and establish standards for evaluating performance.
• Create sketches, drawings, and diagrams to support prototypes and concepts.

Skills

Learn & Adapt

Systems Thinking

Influence & Collaborate

AI curiosity

Education

Technical degree student

Tools

SolidWorks

Job description

In the Product Engineer Intern position, you’ll support new product development and launches across a growing portfolio of innovative products. You’ll gain hands‑on engineering experience by researching products and technologies, supporting product testing and prototypes, and contributing to cross‑functional development projects while building your skills in areas such as Quality Management Systems, business planning, and patent research.

Direct Supply is building the future of healthcare technology with industry‑leading products, solutions and platforms to help improve the lives of millions of seniors and those who care for them.

What You’ll Do And Impact

• Research products, components, and emerging technologies to develop specifications for new product introductions that create value for customers.
• Contribute to product development projects led by senior engineers, helping accelerate development from concept through launch.
• Support cross‑functional project teams in identifying and evaluating high‑value opportunities for new and innovative products.
• Review business plans and recommend technologies that support desired product and business outcomes.
• Apply technology and AI tools to research and development activities to simplify processes, strengthen insights, and improve products.
• Develop and perform product comparison testing and establish standards for evaluating product performance.
• Create concept sketches, engineering drawings, logic diagrams, and other technical documentation to support prototypes and new product concepts.

Skills Needed

• Learn & Adapt - Continuously grow and adapt as technology, customer needs, roles, and work systems evolve. Stay curious, learn beyond your core specialty, experiment with new approaches, use AI to accelerate learning, and improve through feedback and setbacks.
• Systems Thinking & Problem Solving - Identify the right problems to solve by understanding the broader system – customers, stakeholders, processes, data, technology, and AI. Connect root causes, dependencies, tradeoffs, and upstream and downstream effects to develop practical, scalable solutions that improve the whole.
• Influence & Collaborate - Build trust, communicate clearly, and work across boundaries to drive action and shared outcomes. Seek and integrate different perspectives, contribute ideas, work through dependencies, and help teams make progress together through change and ambiguity.
• Strong curiosity and motivation to explore AI capabilities such as natural language processing, computer vision, or generative models.

Experience

• Currently enrolled in a technical degree program in Engineering, Quality, Sciences, Technology, or a related field.
• 3 or more semesters remaining before graduation.
• Strong attention to detail and precision with effective written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work independently, take accountability for assignments, and adapt to changing priorities.
• Strong mechanical aptitude and interest in hands‑on work approximately 10–20% of the time.
• Eagerness to learn and apply new software, technologies, and engineering tools.
• Ability to work approximately 20–25 hours per week during the school year and approximately 40 hours per week during the summer.

Additional Items Of Interest

• SolidWorks experience.
• Exposure to product development, prototyping, product testing, Quality Management Systems, or related engineering processes.
• Interest in applying AI and emerging technologies to engineering and product development.

Job to be performed in the location listed. Generous benefit package available.

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