He also holds adjunct positions in the Tufts University Departments of Physics and Computer Science.
From 1978 to 1986, he was a physicist in the Plasma Theory Group at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.
From 1986 through 1994, he was a Senior Scientist in the Mathematical Research Group at Thinking Machines Corporation in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Boghosian has been a fellow of the American Physical Society since 2000, and a foreign member of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences[7] since 2008.
His 2019 article "The Inescapable Casino"[8] was published in six languages, and included in the volume "The Best Writing on Mathematics 2020".