I'd say the roles are quite different. You could argue about ICs / SDE / SDMs - but Solution or Sales Engineering require different skill sets. They are more client facing and your KPIs (or OKRs) are more tied to sales, client relationships or contract renewals.
> KPIs (or OKRs)
is this sarcasm?
You should probably spend some time speaking to folks outside of your dev team and learn how businesses tend to operate