Product Engineer Intern

Direct Supply
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United StatesPosted Sep 4, 2026

About the role

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, an

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