I think they're pretty disparate roles, but software engineers building the product inherently have some product intuition around the thing they're architecting. Which is why I think its actually a bit more difficult to go from PM to eng. However totally still possible, and while not a lot of overlap in skillset, communication is very important in both. The most important skill is just getting your technical fundamentals down and being able to build things.

Thanks for the input! And that totally makes sense. I find that the best engineers that I have worked with are the ones that communicate well and often.